how to convert to ReiserFS ?

[Derek Broughton]

Dana J. Laude wrote:

> On Monday 03 July 2006 10:59, Daniel Carrera wrote:
>> On Mon, 2006-03-07 at 18:43 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> > > ReiserFS is faster than ext3. ext3 is more stable and better
>> > > tested.
>> >
>> > This means, that ReiserFS is unstable?
>>
>> No it doesn't. It means that it is *less* stable than ext3. This is
>> simply the fact that ext3/ext2 has been around for a long time and
>> has gone through a much more extensive testing than ReiserFS. Ext2
>> came out 13 years ago, and has been the primary Linux fs since.
>> ReiserFS is 5 years old, and even today it probably isn't as used as
>> ext3.
> 
> I'd just like to note that in MY brief experience with Ext3, it sucked.
> Crash and burn, reformatted with ReiserFS and all was good again.

I had no significant problems in two or three years of using Ext3 - even
though I did have a drive failure in that period.  I've been using ReiserFS
exclusively since Hoary, though, and I like it better.

I wouldn't say that it is, in any way, "less stable" than ext3 - which is a
journalling kludge stuck on top of an inadequate file system.

> Also, I know you can convert a Ext2 partition over to ReiserFS, it's
> buried  in my notes somewhere... and I've done it successfully.

I didn't know that - if I had, I'd have done it sooner, rather than waiting
until I'd bought a new machine.
-- 
derek