Re: reiserfs4

[Hans Reiser]

Tomas Szepe wrote:

> > [green@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> >
> >    
> >
> > > > Why do people ever want a "converter"?
> > > >        
> > > That's been discussed before.
> > > Because people don't have the resources (hard disk space, tape drives, 
> > > money)  to backup their data, and might still be interested in testing a 
> > > new filesystem. They might be willing to take a risk with the new fs 
> > > and converter. Amazing as it may sound, people do that. I am such a 
> > > tester, and I'd find a converter to be a useful tool. But since the 
> > > previous discussion on the subject concluded it'd be really hard to 
> > > impossible to write one, I guess I'll have to settle for new hard drive(s).
> > >      
> > This is no longer true.
> > There is sort of "universal" fs convertor for linux that can convert almost
> > any fs to almost any other fs.
> > The only requirement seems to be that both fs types should have read/write support in Linux.
> > http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/
> >    
>
> I'm afraid I cannot recommend using this tool.
>
> A test conversion from reiserfs to ext3 (inside a vmware machine)
> screwed up the data real horrorshow: directory structure seems
> ok but file contents are apparently shifted.
>
>  
Are you sure that vmware does not affect the result?

--
Hans


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