• bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

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

    • ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social
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      6 months 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.

      • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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        6 months 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…

        • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          6 months 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…

            • LeFantome@programming.dev
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              6 months 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.

    • Boo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 months 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.

      • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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        6 months ago

        Ty!

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