Converting EXT4

2021-04-20 Thread Forrest Aldrich
I have been experimenting with both BTRFS and EXT4 on hacked up, external RAID5 array made of USB disks.  Yes, I know, crazy -- but they're laying around, so I figured why not use them for long-term storage? Anyway, in my latest transfer of multiple terabytes of data, to an EXT4 filesystem (it

Re: APFS and BTRFS

2021-03-27 Thread Forrest Aldrich
USB3.x bus and the USB-based disks I have striped together -- yes, i know it's a hack :) On 3/27/21 2:13 PM, Forza wrote: On 2021-03-23 00:19, Forrest Aldrich wrote: I have apfs-fuse running, but it is read-only. I wanted to avoid the pain of replicating a large disk from USB3 t

Re: APFS and BTRFS

2021-03-22 Thread Forrest Aldrich
I have apfs-fuse running, but it is read-only. I wanted to avoid the pain of replicating a large disk from USB3 to USB3 by converting the filesystem, which I expected wouldn't be possible.  So now I am just replicating it, which will take days to accomplish. Thanks. On 3/22/21 7:13 PM, Eu

APFS and BTRFS

2021-03-20 Thread Forrest Aldrich
I have a really large (3+ TB) volume I am copying to a BTRFS volume (both over USB) which is painfully slow.  In fact, it will probably take days to complete.   My goal is to use BTRFS on that larger USB volume (it's an 18TB drive) I don't suppose there is a way to convert APFS to BTRFS :)

APFS and BTRFS

2021-03-20 Thread Forrest Aldrich
I have a really large (3+ TB) volume I am copying to a BTRFS volume (both over USB) which is painfully slow.  In fact, it will probably take days to complete.   My goal is to use BTRFS on that larger USB volume (it's an 18TB drive) I don't suppose there is a way to convert APFS to BTRFS :)