That's unfortunate. Many users, including me, started using btrfs by
converting from ext4. I hope this gets fixed.

Vytas

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 5:16 AM, Marc MERLIN <m...@merlins.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 02:05:04PM +0300, Robert Munteanu wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 8:46 PM, Marc MERLIN <m...@merlins.org> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 03:19:06PM +0300, Robert Munteanu wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >
>> > Note to others: kernel 4.0.4
>> >
>> > Reply to you:
>> > I tried ext4 to btrfs once a year ago and it severely mangled my
>> > filesystem.
>> > I looked at it as a cool feature/hack that may have worked some time ago, 
>> > but
>> > that no one really uses anymore, and that may not work right at this
>> > point.
>> >
>> > Unless you hear back from a developer interested in debugging/fixing
>> > this, I would assume that this feature is broken and dead.
>>
>> I did hear, but in case the general consensus is that this feature is
>> broken/experimental/unsafe, it would be great to mention it in the
>> wiki page.
>
> Done
> https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Conversion_from_Ext3
>
> Marc
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