Control: retitle -1 btrfs-progs: please stop shipping btrfs-convert On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 14:24:04 +0000 Dimitri John Ledkov <x...@debian.org> wrote: > On 21 February 2017 at 13:44, Hideki Yamane <henr...@debian.or.jp> wrote: > > On Tue, 07 Feb 2017 18:07:38 +0100 Robert Schindler <rob...@shajil.de> > > wrote: > >> I tried to convert an ext4 file system to btrfs. The disk is 2 TiB in > >> size with ~500 GiB used. The file system sits inside a LUKS container. > > > > It still happens with 4.9.1-1, tried to convert ext4 to btrfs, not on > > LUKS. > > > > btrfs-convert is no longer supported / recommended upstream to use. > > I wonder if we should still ship it in Debian at all. > > You are much better off doing a backup and restore, to migrate from > ext4 -> btrfs. > > See warning at: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Conversion_from_Ext3
I think not shipping it would be a better service for our users. -- Balint Reczey Debian & Ubuntu Developer
