On Tuesday 14 August 2001 12:41 am, James S Bear wrote:
> I've been listening to your file system talks and have come to the
> conclusion that reiser is better. Is it not for any reason?
The main reasons are, ReiserFS has a longer track record with Linux
than other journalling FS's, and in the event of a hard reboot without
properly shutting down it quickly restores itself without corruption
(90+% of the time). This makes it very attractive for use on problem
systems or those without an UPS.
I have
> a bunch of machines all formatted ext2. Is there a way to convert it
> to reiser without reformatting?
No, you'll have to wipe the partitions and then format them as
ReiserFS during your re-install. AFAIK, the only journaling FS you can
upgrade existing ext2 partitions to is ext3. 'Course even then a full
backup would be advisable. So why not then just format ReiserFS and
restore the system(s) from backup?
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