On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 11:48:50AM +0200, Kai Herlemann wrote: > Hi, > I have on my ext4 filesystem some sparse files, mostly images from > ext4 filesystems. > Is btrfs-convert (4.9.1) able to deal with sparse files or can that > cause any problems?
>From personal experience, I would recommend not using btrfs-convert on ext4 partitions. I attempted it on a /home partition on one of my machines, and while it did succeed in converting, the fs it produced had weird issues that caused transation failures and thus semi-frequent remount-ro. Btrfs-check, scrub, and balance were all unable to repair the damage. I ended up recreating the parition from a backup. As far as I know, there were no sparse files on this partition, either. Just my one data point, for whatever it's worth. --Sean -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
