Reiser 4

how i convert reiser3.6 to reiser4. this update is safe??? the reiser4 have any critical bug?? anyone recommend this update???

Backup. Reformat. Restore.

Dunno. Many people is using it, so I guess it is.

Doesn't like 4KSTACKS :(

Hans does ;)
And I would if it compiled with 4KSTACKS.

Best Regards,
Norberto

zam is working on 4k stacks support. Not sure why people care about it so much, but sometimes we do things to make users happy.....

Any chance to get an all.diff for vanilla 2.6.9-rc1 ?

Thanks,
Jeff.

Have you read the documents at http://www.namesys.com/ yet? It makes for great reading as everything is quite detailed. They also have a mailing list you might want to subscribe to if you're worried about bugs. As far as critical bugs, I don't know of any right now.

Hope that helps,

Sean

Other readers have been less complimentary. Someone could do a great service to both Namesys and the kernel community by sifting through the references to Adam Smith, Free Software philosophy, chaos theory, King Arthur, etc., and producing an edited version that keeps to the point.

--Bruce Fields

Backup / Format / Restore is the only way of migrating to Reiser4 (no magical tool to convert from reiser3-to-reiser4 is available ATM).

It depends... I wouldn't recommend Reiser4 for production systems. AFAIK, there are still some pending minor bugs, but it's very unlikely that it will eat your data.

Hi!

FAS> Backup / Format / Restore is the only way of migrating to Reiser4 (no magical FAS> tool to convert from reiser3-to-reiser4 is available ATM).
Hans would be ready to write a conversion tool if you sponsor him ;-)

Anyway Hans wrote once, that future format changes in reiser4 should be feasible by using a specially written "plugin" for that. (please refer to the thread about plugins for details, people argue about the terminology here)

Do not use it yet on important data. Please experiment though on data you do not really value that much.

I have read a report that reiser4 has a problem with apache trying to access .htaccess. Something about reiser4 giving a misleading answer to a stat() call or something in that manner.

Subscribing to Reiserfs Mailinglist <[email protected]> is also valueable of course.

There truly is a need for a glossary of terms and I belive Hans and his crew know that the community needs proper documents so that we all can grasp the whole idea behind reiser4 but without so called "Hans Talk".

Regards,
Maciej

Hello!

There is nice tool called convertfs. Google it. If I recall correctly, it allows to perform inplace conversion of any FS to any :)

umka

its not a update, since its two difference filesystems, i would say its safe, i run it myself

i recommend "update", and the only thing is the 4kstacks thing

Redeeman <[email protected]>