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minus-squarebloodfart@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9·4 months agowhats the recommended method of dealing with old reiser partitions once kernel support gets removed?
minus-squareProgrammingSocks@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up10·4 months agoMigrate them to a modern filesystem, presumably. ext4 is extremely reliable, btrfs is less proven but much more featureful with copy-on-write and snapshots. This isn’t any type of surprise, ResierFS was marked obsolete some time ago now.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 months agoBtrfs is well supported and stable
minus-squareeveninghere@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoYeah, people have been saying btrfs to be untested for more than a decade by now.
minus-squareProgrammingSocks@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoI like btrfs but I’ve personally had problems. Protip: DO NOT USE THAT WINDOWS DRIVER
minus-squarebloodfart@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoi guess i’m asking how do i migrate them to newer filesystems once kernel support is removed. surely i’ll still be able to modprobe it back in…
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 months agoMigrate now before you lose your data
whats the recommended method of dealing with old reiser partitions once kernel support gets removed?
Kill them?
Too soon
Migrate them to a modern filesystem, presumably. ext4 is extremely reliable, btrfs is less proven but much more featureful with copy-on-write and snapshots.
This isn’t any type of surprise, ResierFS was marked obsolete some time ago now.
Btrfs is well supported and stable
Yeah, people have been saying btrfs to be untested for more than a decade by now.
I like btrfs but I’ve personally had problems. Protip: DO NOT USE THAT WINDOWS DRIVER
i guess i’m asking how do i migrate them to newer filesystems once kernel support is removed. surely i’ll still be able to modprobe it back in…
Migrate now before you lose your data