Re: reiserfs

["Hall Stevenson" <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>]

> > It is a high performance file system, still somewhat
> > in the experimental stage.  However, it has already
> > (as I understand) proven useful to some advanced
> > users with very particular requirements.
> >
> > It has a number of advanced features/benifits, but
> > perhaps the most mentioned is journaling.
>
> I'm still waiting for an "ext22reiser" program. I'd like to
> try reiser myself, but I'm too lazy to backup my system and
> re-partition it. It's a home system, so there's nothing real
> critical on it...
>
> Anyone ever heard or read about such a converter ??

Just checked the reiserfs website, www.namesys.com, I think,
and it suggested the idea I had already. Resize your existing
partition, create a partition to hold your current data, copy
the data to the new partition, then make the original into a
reiser partition.

Hall