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| From: | Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-amd64@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | [gentoo-amd64] Re: mount ext3 with ext4 driver | ||
| Date: | Sat, 02 May 2009 18:05:12 | ||
| Message-Id: | gti1oo$n2c$1@ger.gmane.org | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-amd64] mount ext3 with ext4 driver by Martin Herrman |
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| 1 | Martin Herrman wrote: |
| 2 | > All, |
| 3 | > |
| 4 | > After reading this: |
| 5 | > |
| 6 | > http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#Converting_an_ext3_filesystem_to_ext4 |
| 7 | > |
| 8 | > do you have any experience with mounting your ext3 filesystems using the |
| 9 | > ext4 module? Is the performance improvement noticeable? |
| 10 | |
| 11 | There isn't because the existing files are still stored in the old |
| 12 | format. Only new files will benefit. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | The only useful way to jump on ext4 is to rsync all the filesystem |
| 15 | somewhere else, format as ext4 and then rsync back. |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: mount ext3 with ext4 driver | Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@g.o> |