Hi Helmut, don't use btrfs for important files if you got no backup yet. It's quite stable and a lot of ppl don't have problem with it, but there are some cases where it could be very ugly, like a powerloss while writing etc.
Regards, Felix Am 01 Nov 2010 09:02:00 +0100 schrieb "Helmut Hullen" <hul...@t-online.de>: > Hallo, Yan, > > Du meintest am 01.11.10: > > >> I've tried to convert a 12 GByte ext2 partition (nearly full, 280 > >> MByte free) with btrfs-convert. > >> > >> After about 15 minutes (700-MHz-CPU) the system tells > >> > >> ... > >> creating ext2fs image file > >> cleaning up system chunk > >> btrfs-convert: extent-tree.c:2529: btrfs_reserve_extent: Assertion > >> `!(ret)' failed > >> Abgebrochen > > > Try btrfs-convert -r /dev/xxx, hopefully it will recover your ext2. > > Restoring is (now) no problem, I'm still testing. But in some days > (or weeks) I want to convert a partition with 1,5 TByte (which has > no backup) ... > > Viele Gruesse! > Helmut > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
