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whats the recommended method of dealing with old reiser partitions once kernel support gets removed?
Use an old kernel version (if yours doesn't still support it) and something like btrfs-convert to get a maintained filesystem instead. Works pretty well in my experience with converting other filesystems to btrfs.
Ty!
I think I’m just gonna burn a Slackware cd and put it in the drawer with all the reiser disks.
I agree with the other commenter recommending to migrate as soon as possible while the kernel still does support, but that does seem like a workable strategy if you can't for the foreseeable future.