March 17, 201610 yr I'm just noticing now that my Disk 1 FS is reiserfs and my Disk 2 FS is xfs. Does it make sense for these to be different file system types?
March 17, 201610 yr Community Expert I'm just noticing now that my Disk 1 FS is reiserfs and my Disk 2 FS is xfs. Does it make sense for these to be different file system types? Reiserfs was the default (and only choice) in ver 5.X and xfs is the default in ver 6.X. I suspect that your disk 1 was formatted under ver 5 and disk 2 under ver 6. Is this the case? Obviously, xfs is probably the best current choice for your data disks as the developer of reisefs (and copyright holder, I believe) is now in a prison.
March 17, 201610 yr Author I'm just noticing now that my Disk 1 FS is reiserfs and my Disk 2 FS is xfs. Does it make sense for these to be different file system types? Reiserfs was the default (and only choice) in ver 5.X and xfs is the default in ver 6.X. I suspect that your disk 1 was formatted under ver 5 and disk 2 under ver 6. Is this the case? Obviously, xfs is probably the best current choice for your data disks as the developer of reisefs (and copyright holder, I believe) is now in a prison. Both disks were installed at the same time so I'm not sure why they are under different file systems. I have not formatted either disk besides during the install. Maybe they were set to auto? I suppose I should change disk 1 to xfs. EDIT: Also noticing now that the cache is Reiserfs. Cache is a SSD. Should I change this too? And now also remembering that I will have to format my disk if I'd like to switch file systems. I imagine this is possible since I have the parity drive. How do I go about properly utilizing this and formatting the disk and writing the data back to the disk?
March 17, 201610 yr I suppose I should change disk 1 to xfs. EDIT: Also noticing now that the cache is Reiserfs. Cache is a SSD. Should I change this too? And now also remembering that I will have to format my disk if I'd like to switch file systems. I imagine this is possible since I have the parity drive. How do I go about properly utilizing this and formatting the disk and writing the data back to the disk? Yes, switching file systems will require formatting. No, parity won't let you get data back like that after formatting a drive, it won't help you change file systems. See the sticky thread "Format XFS on replacement drive / Convert from RFS to XFS" in this forum. If you insist on changing file systems, you need to have a copy of the data on the disk in question somewhere else and copy it back after formatting the drive.
March 17, 201610 yr Community Expert I'm just noticing now that my Disk 1 FS is reiserfs and my Disk 2 FS is xfs. Does it make sense for these to be different file system types? Reiserfs was the default (and only choice) in ver 5.X and xfs is the default in ver 6.X. I suspect that your disk 1 was formatted under ver 5 and disk 2 under ver 6. Is this the case? Obviously, xfs is probably the best current choice for your data disks as the developer of reisefs (and copyright holder, I believe) is now in a prison. Both disks were installed at the same time so I'm not sure why they are under different file systems. I have not formatted either disk besides during the install. Maybe they were set to auto? I suppose I should change disk 1 to xfs. EDIT: Also noticing now that the cache is Reiserfs. Cache is a SSD. Should I change this too? And now also remembering that I will have to format my disk if I'd like to switch file systems. I imagine this is possible since I have the parity drive. How do I go about properly utilizing this and formatting the disk and writing the data back to the disk? When you format a disk, what you are actually doing is writing an empty filesystem to the disk. unRAID treats this write just like any other and updates parity, so parity will agree that you do indeed now have an empty filesystem. If you want to keep anything from a drive, copy it off before you format it, just like with any other system.
March 17, 201610 yr There is a great sticky that explains the process to move from reiser to xfs. I have just done this last week with no issues at all. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=37490.0
March 17, 201610 yr Author There is a great sticky that explains the process to move from reiser to xfs. I have just done this last week with no issues at all. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=37490.0 Yesss, seeing the sticky now. Will follow accordingly.
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