how to convert to ReiserFS ?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 23:32 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Alan McKinnon schrieb:
> 
> > I very much doubt that there are any major bugs left in either fs. Both
> > are equally mature now to be equally stable, and both reached the point
> > of stability a long time ago.
> 
> Exactly.
> 
>   It's now a question of which fs's tools do
> > you know better as the major decision maker
> 
> Not only. ext3 is badly suited for notebooks, as ext3 has a forced
> commit every some (30?) seconds, even if there were no changes at
> all. Because of that, harddrives will never go to sleep when ext3
> is used.

Thanks, I didn't know that

> Next bad thing about ext3 is, that the journal is at just one "tiny" spot.
> This might break harddrives faster, as the harddrive will read and
> write to just one spot *very* often.

Didn't know that one either :-)

> How about resizing? Does ext3 support growing the fs while it's
> online (== mounted)?

Dunno, it's been 24 months since I used ext3 (which explains the first
two dunnos), but I don't believe it does.

I have had zero problems with reiser in all these months on various
machines. I could even recover from a stupid 'rm -rf ~/*' issued at just
the wrong time. I also like the way Hans thinks and what he has in mind
for the future, I can't wait for reiser4 to get reasonably stable

alan