• bloodfart
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    26 days ago

    whats the recommended method of dealing with old reiser partitions once kernel support gets removed?

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      25 days ago

      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.

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        25 days ago

        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…

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          25 days ago

          Use a kernel version that still has support to perform the copy before upgrading? If already upgraded, boot to the old kernel? Boot from a live iso that has support?

          I mean, this isn’t exactly a hard problem to solve…

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            25 days ago

            I guess I gotta put an old Slackware cd in with that drawer full of reiser drives.

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              25 days ago

              The 6.10 kernel has not even been released yet. Support has not been removed yet. It does not have to be an “old” Slackware CD.

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                25 days ago

                By the time I get around to shuffling through a bunch of old drive it very well could be!

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      23 days ago

      Use an old kernel version (if yours doesn’t still support it) and something like btrfs-convert to get a maintained filesystem instead. Works pretty well in my experience with converting other filesystems to btrfs.

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        23 days ago

        Ty!

        I think I’m just gonna burn a Slackware cd and put it in the drawer with all the reiser disks.

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          23 days ago

          I agree with the other commenter recommending to migrate as soon as possible while the kernel still does support, but that does seem like a workable strategy if you can’t for the foreseeable future.