how to convert to ReiserFS ?

[Alexander Skwar]

Daniel Carrera schrieb:
> On Mon, 2006-03-07 at 11:10 -0500, Ken N9VV wrote:
>> is there any way to convert my existing etx3 file system to one of 
>> the journaling file systems such as ReiserFS?
> 
> 1) ext3 *is* a journaling filesystem.
> 2) The only way to do this is to backup your data, reformat the
> partition, and then put it back in.
> 
>>  is there an advantage?
> 
> ReiserFS is faster than ext3. ext3 is more stable and better tested.

This means, that ReiserFS is unstable?

Do you have any *CURRENT* prove for that? ReiserFS had some serious
bugs "way back then", but currently?

> You
> are unlikely to notice any speed improvement with ReiserFS. You might if
> you're talking about a file server with a heavy workload.

Depends :) Also normal systems which have some servers (like
a news server) can benefit from reiserfs.

Alexander Skwar
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