Re: migration reiserfs to ffs (openbsd 3.6)

["Greg Thomas" <getbsd_(_at_)_dslextreme_(_dot_)_com>]

Mattijs Snepvangers
>
> Responses:
> - Since I never made a backup of all this data it wasn't that important,
> so I shouldn't bother.
> -> not everyone can spend lots of money on computers whenever they feel
> like it.

Well, then you shouldn't be relying on computers then.

> - Use the 3rd Harddrive as a raw block device and move things around
> with tar.
> -> this sounds like a very good plan! Delete any partitions on 'hd3' an
> dump the files on it with tar, optionally using compression, and
> verifying after dumping before formatting the now empty drive with ffs
> and retrieving the files again with tar.
>
> I think I'll stick with the last solution.

Why are you ignoring a simpler solution that was offered at least twice? 
OpenBSD and Linux can mount FAT32, mount a FAT32 volume and tar the stuff
to it.

>
> Finally, With my short experience on OpenBSD, I've started to really
> like OpenBSD, but certainly not for some of the people in it's
> community.

< snipped a bunch of overly sensitive crap >

It never ceases to amaze me how poorly people react to reality.

Greg