> Things may have changed from when we wrote the Distributions Redbook, but at > that time, Reiserfs was not endian-safe. That is probably still true for > 2.2 kernels (Alan Cox?) but I note that Red Hat's distribution has it as an > option for their 2.4-based distribution. > > Creating a Reiser or ext3 file system involves issuing the mkfs command. By > definition, that will clobber your data. One of the advantages of the ext3 > file system is that it can be _mounted_ as an ext2 file system, once it's > been created. This is handy if you have any tools that seem to choke on > ext3. I haven't been hearing anything from anyone screaming about losing > their data on Linux/390 by using the journaling file systems. I would love > to hear about both successes and failures, if anyone has any to report. >
One of the advantages of ext3 is that you can covert from ext2 to ext3 without unloading/reloading. read up on tune2fs for more. The RH installer (at least anaconda) can do it as part of the upgrade process. > Mark Post > > -----Original Message----- > From: Philip J. Tully [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 3:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Process to move to a jfs on an existing system > > > Hello all, > > We are reviewing our options on using a journalized file system. My > initial concern is how do we move from ext2 to either ext3 or Reiserfs? > Does the data on the filesystem get erased during the conversion (I > know I back everything up but I need to allocate time)? > > Are there known incompatibilities on linux/390? > > We are using SLES7. > > Regards, > Philip J. Tully > Manager > z/VM and Linux/Z support > 212.647.3208 > -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. ============================== If you don't like being told you're wrong, be right!
