On 2017-09-20 13:21, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> [09-20-17 07:14]:
On 2017-09-20 12:02, Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink wrote:
Op woensdag 20 september 2017 11:12:13 CEST schreef Rodney Baker:
On Wednesday, 20 September 2017 16:58:01 ACST Andrei Borzenkov 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.
Btrfs is a great choice - if you want to end up with an unbootable system after a few shapshots have used up all available disk space on the root filesystem, leaving the system unbootable and unrecoverable (and all because it doesn’t use sensible defaults and there is no warning during installation that the defaults need to be tweaked to prevent this).
Hmm - just had a thought. Maybe btrfs is actually a VLTLA for “Ban The Reiser File System”. ;)
Says someone who's not using btrfs ??
Rather said by people that tried it, had an unbootable system, and had to reinstall.
and these same people have never had an "unbootable system" from other causes or filesystem and gave no "second chance".
Oh, I have, but I become wary; on all ocassions (without btrfs) I knew what to do and the tools guided the process. With btrfs some people have been bitten three times (reinstall system from scratch). Btrfs is a brilliant filesystem, but also a risky one, IMO. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)