On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 at 19:48, Chris G Haravata wrote: > yes, i want sana to non-destructively change the filesystem. Isn't > there any other way??? You see, hirap kseng mag-maintain ng mail server > na 'alang quota. Inaabuso ng mga users ko (who are mostly students).
Unfortunately the only non-destructive filesystem conversion occurs between ext2 and ext3. JFS, ReiserFS and XFS will all require you to have a buffer filesystem where you store your data while you create a new filesystem to overwrite the old one. The only way I see you changing over to a filesystem with quota support (ext2, ext3, XFS) is to do it during off-hours using an extra drive that can hold all the data of a particular filesystem. You will have to use this buffer drive as you change filesystems one by one. Yes, long, tedious, coffee-laden process. > And I've had the bad luck to heed the suggestion of one of my > colleagues, who said that we can now use quota with reiserfs... :( > O kaya naman e, if you can point me to the right direction. Maybe, I can > read up on reiserfs and how to make it quota-friendly... d*mn again!!! I just checked the ReiserFS FAQ and there's nothing on quotas. Since I never had to use quotas with ReiserFS, I wouldn't know if it is or isn't supported. :( Is your mail stored in Maildirs or in standard mboxes? You may want to try XFS out, if you want that extra ounce of performance that ReiserFS would have given you over ext2. If not, ext3 seems to give the "best of both worlds": metadata journalling, ordered data writes, and the same stuff of ext2. :) --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key: http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/jijo.gpg _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
