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I don't know if you talk only about linux or you meant your comment as a generalization, but have you heard of in place APFS migration from HFS+ ?
by tuyiown 3y ago
I don't know if you talk only about linux or you meant your comment as a generalization, but have you heard of in place APFS migration from HFS+ ?
- bayindirh 3y agoSimilarly Microsoft offered FAT32 to NTFS in-place migration, and it did the required checks before starting to ensure it completes successfully. It was more than 20 years ago IIRC.
- tuyiown 3y agoThe notable thing with APFS is that the migration came automatically with an OS update (to high sierra) by default.
- bayindirh 3y agoYes, I think also mounting ext3 systems as ext4 and migrating it to ext4 as you access it is a good way too. IIRC you had to enable a couple of flags in the ext3 system with tune2fs to enable ext4 features as well, but it didn't break, and migrated as you write & delete files.