Re: Q: how to switch to reiserfs?

["Steven W. Orr" <steveo syslang net>]

Reiserfs is the journaling filesystem written by Hans Reiser. The best way
to describe what reiserfs is to take a system with a running reiserfs on
it and just pull the plug on it. Then when you reboot you get to note that
there is no fsck to run. Very cool. Also, data transfers are just plain
faster. One caveat: Don't use it if the partition is to be nfs served.
Yet.

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On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Tym Rehm wrote:

=>Stupid Question! What does reiserf do for you???
=>
=>----- Original Message -----
=>From: "Steven W. Orr" <steveo syslang net>
=>To: "victors" <me victors ru>
=>Cc: <seawolf-list redhat com>
=>Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 10:56 AM
=>Subject: Re: Q: how to switch to reiserfs?
=>
=>
=>> Sorry for the previous blank.
=>> Easy peasy. Yes you need to make a copy of your partition, then run
=>> mkreiserfs, and then copy your files back on. Just change your fstab so
=>> that it sez reiserfs instead of ext2.
=>>
=>> On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, victors wrote:
=>>
=>> =>Hello,
=>> =>
=>> =>I'm already using a few ext2 partition, but want to convert it to
=>> =>reiserfs. So, is it possible to convert partition or I have to do full
=>> =>backup & restore? Any HOWTO's on this?
=>> =>
=>> =>Thanks
=>> =>
=>> =>- Victor