On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 22:23:39 +0100 I wrote:
And as such I consider it entirely reasonable to ask questions about what I'm going to have to do to upgrade my system. In fact your reply was to an email in which I asked some questions, which you chose to ignore and even delete from your reply! I'll repeat them:
I wrote and asked Jiri Srain, the project manager responsible for YaST, these questions and he replied quickly and informatively. I asked him for permission to post his answers here and he has just done so, along with some further information about question 3:
(1) Is YaST going to suggest that I migrate a reiserfs filesystem to something else or is it going to refuse to continue the upgrade until I have done so? (for data, not root)
The filesystem migration is something that can turn to be really fragile and lead to data loss to be done automatically as part of the update process. The user will be asked to migrate the filesystem manually and then start the upgrade.
(2) Is that all filesystems on all disks, or just those in the fstab?
The updater will only care about the filesystems which are mentioned in fstab. Therefore removing the fstab entry for data partition will allow you to upgrade.
(3) Is the kernel still going to support reiserfs?
This is question for kernel folks; we were discussing whether we can remove the driver from kernel completely or need to keep at least read-only support (in order to be able to detect the system which would be upgradeable if it was on a different filesystem). It may happen that the driver is in the installer/updater only.
(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)
Either you do back-ups anyway or the data can be easily destroyed, or? More seriously, I would not do any conversion, at least not without having a solid back-up. Any interruption in the middle will mean destroying your partition. Re-populating the partition from back-up is IMO the safest solution. The additional information about the kernel is: I asked:
Who is the best person to ask my kernel question, or is the discussion archived online somewhere? I'd like to understand the reasoning.
Jiri replied: I checked the current status. At the moment we do not build the reiserfs module at all. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org