Support for offline conversion of a native file system (Ext4) to VxFS

Veritas InfoScale now provides support for offline conversion of native file system (Ext4) to VxFS.

The Veritas vxfsconvert utility enables you to convert the file system. The conversion is an in-place conversion where data is not copied or migrated, but only the bmaps are updated.

The applications must be offline during the conversion process. After the file system is converted to VxFS, the extended attributes of the existing file system are not preserved, and you cannot revert back to the earlier file system.

For more details about converting the native file system to VxFS, refer to, Veritas InfoScale Solutions Guide.