On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 12:08 +0200, Thomas Dreibholz wrote: > Hi, > > why has reiserfs support been removed before useful tools to convert reiserfs > to btrfs are available? btrfs-convert > (https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Conversion_from_Ext3) can only > convert ext2/3/4, but *not* reiserfs. Are there any useful tools to do such a > conversion without copying terabytes of data to an additional disk, > reformatting the original disk with btrfs and copying everything back? > > If a useful and working feature like reiserfs is going to be removed, the > installer should at least provide an easy conversion option to do all the > conversion automatically. Just removing it and expecting the user to find some > solution is just annoying! reiserfs is still included in the kernel, and probably will be for at least one more stable release. You are not forced to convert your existing systems that use reiserfs, though I would suggest you do so soon. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway.
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