In reply to tabanna's letter who wrote on 29 Jun:
"reiserfs is a revolutionary new approach to file system design which stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a B*-tree. It is a generation ahead of alternatives which use older plain B-tree technology, and cannot store the files themselves in the tree. Reiserfs doesn't suffer from log congestion either, you can effectively use it for quickly creating a 100,000 entry directory, and it is fairly unique in that." {freshmeat} _______________
~ Can someone, please, point me to a "How to" Convert an existing system, to REISERFS . . . is this 1) Dangerous 2) Possible ?
thanks
It is not much of a problem. I did it when upgrading from 6.3 to 6.4. You want to do a full backup of your HD (or at least the portion of it that you want to convert over to Reiser). Using YaST you can easily reformat the partition(s) in question to Reiser. Since YaST will not want you to mess with a mounted filesystme you should boot from your boot diskette (or boot CD) when doing this. After the conversion is done play your backup back on your HD. Converting the root partition is a bit more tricky. What I did in order not to have to rebuild my root partition from scratch is that I generated a separate partition (mounted it on /root) first, on which I then copied the contents of my / partition. Then, while installing ReiserFS on the / partition I changed its mountpoint to something else (/rootold) and changed the mount point of /root to / . This allowed me to reboot and end up with a functional system that I could use to copy everything in (now) / back to /rootold. Then reboot with my boot CD and switch things back, i.e., mount /rootold on / and reutilize the extra partition that I generated earlier. Perhaps there is an easier way to do it, but I guess once you follow what happenes in the partitioning and formating process it shouldn't be too difficult to figure out a way to make the switch. However, don't forget to backup first!!! Best regards, Alex. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/