On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 02:49:43PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 03:38:01PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > I've tried an ext4 to btrfs conversion 3 times in the last 3 years, it > > > never worked properly any of those times, sadly. > > > > Since the 4.6 total rewrite? There are also recent bug fixes related > > to convert in the changelog, it should be working now and if there are > > problems Qu is probably interested in getting them fixed. > > It was a 4.9 kernel from debian.
It's the userspace tools that make the difference here (and what Chris was referring to). Conversion has nothing to do with the kernel. Hugo. > The conversion looked like it worked, I rebooted ok, and then it got > corrupted quickly after I deleted the subvolumes that had the old ext4 data. > I've since wiped that disk and done a fresh btrfs install on it, because I > had to get some work done :) > > Marc -- Hugo Mills | Essex: a branch of philothophy. hugo@... carfax.org.uk | http://carfax.org.uk/ | PGP: E2AB1DE4 |
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