On Tuesday 14 August 2001 01:41, James S Bear wrote: > I've been listening to your file system talks and have come to the > conclusion that reiser is better. Is it not for any reason? I have a > bunch of machines all formatted ext2. Is there a way to convert it to > reiser without reformatting? I went into linuxconf and just changed the > filesystem type on my /home partition, just to see what would happen. It > seems that nothing happened. What can I do? Anything? > jim > > > Ignorance is underrated It is not possible to convert from ext2 to Reiser _in situ_ You must copy away the info, preserving links, format reiser and copy back. Reiser is still not as robust as it should be. I can make it fail with tests hammering at the filesystem across NFS, complete with data corruption. It is not known at present whether the 1) default mount of Reiser for kernel 2.2 2) notail mount of Reiser for kernel 2.4 actually work. People have lost files. One Mandrake volunteer was doing a tarball compilation when suddenly ./configure would not locate directories He did ldconfig and it confirmed the directories were there. I told him how to use the rescue CD for a reiser partition and we checked a few things. The block count was wrong. He did reiserfsck --rebuild-tree and hung at 60%. Result--total KO of filesystem and new install. In the next release you will have some other journaling filesystems to choose from. Reiser remains at this time a very bright idea incompletely implemented. Civileme
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