On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 13:28:32 +0200 Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink <knurpht@opensuse.org> wrote:
Op woensdag 20 september 2017 13:19:40 CEST schreef Dave Howorth:
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:28:01 +0300
Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Dave Plater
<dplater.list@gmail.com> wrote:
One question, is there a reliable partition converter for a new user with limited space which has valuable information and everything on /?
Standard btrfs-convert supports in-place conversion from reiserfs.
Hmm, https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/issues/40
Add reiserfs support to btrfs-convert
kdave commented Sep 8, 2017
Released in v4.13.
So we're asked to trust our data to a program that had its first release less than two weeks ago?
I think not.
This whole episode looks more and more like a bunch of btrfs fanbois deciding to force a herd of sheep into the abbatoir.
Yup, and the bunch of "everything-everywhere-always-should-stay-the-same- people" that won't accept any change, not even if life-saving.
I think the problem here is the approach that has been taken to "sell" the decision to the great unwashed (i.e. me and others). There's been no attempt to explain or persuade at all. I first heard about this upcoming change at the beginning of the Killing ReiserFS thread. Maybe I should have known earlier but as far as possible I just use openSUSE and following this list is as far as I go in keeping in touch. So learning about it in that way is not ideal. It would be better if I'd learned about it in a way that explained what was going to happen and why. Instead we've had lots of down-the-pub-argy-bargy with a very low signal to noise ratio. I now understand why the change is being made but I still don't understand exactly what is going to happen, despite asking. So if you want me to stop standing in the way and instead want to encourage me to move forward in the way that will be best for me and for everybody else, could you please explain (perhaps by pointing to a hopefully pre-existing explanatory web page): (1) Is YaST going to suggest that you migrate a reiserfs filesystem to something else or is it going to refuse to continue the upgrade until you have done so? (for data, not root) (2) Is that all filesystems on all disks, or just those in the fstab? (3) Is the kernel still going to support reiserfs? (4) What mechanisms are available for conversion, and are there any that do not require me to buy extra hardware? (i.e. use extra space) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org