I recently copied over my / partition from a reiserfs to a reiser4 partition. This may be user error, but I wanted to report it anyway.
Booting off a live cd- I did the following. mount source partition -o ro,noatime mount destination partition -o rw,noatime # cd source partition # tar --one-file-system -cvf - | tar -C dest -xf - Tar went along fine. At the end, there was a very long pause, about a minute, after the last file (a symlink to /var) was copied. Then the prompt returned. On booting up, there were a stream of kernel errors, etc. So I booted another / and fsck destination partition. It found one error in a file, just before the last file (/var symlink) copied. I fixed it, it removed the file (/sbin/uname). Recopied it over from the source partition. After this, the partition works fine. I wanted to know: 1) did I copy over the stuff wrong? I also used cp -ax and had the same problems except this time the disk could not be repaired. 2) I did run badblocks on the dest, and it was clean. 3) I am using the patch from 2.6.17.3 and in my kernel, I have full preempt and cfq scheduling. Any feedback appreciated! Thx and keep up the good work. -- Peter +++++ Do not reply to this email, it is a spam trap and not monitored. I can be reached via this list, or via jabber: pete4abw at jabber.org ICQ: 73676357
