From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 19 1:17:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D591F37B74D; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 01:17:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA23020; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 03:41:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 03:41:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: committers@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Recent commit changes extattr backing file format, users beware Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just committed a change to the extended attribute backing code that modifies the per-attribute header. The result is that backing files used and created from now on have a different format, and weird and unfortunate things will happen with backing files before this change. I doubt anyone is doing more than mild experimentation at this point, but I thought a heads up was in order. I hope not to change the format any further. I've been considering introducing a backing file header version number of some sort, but this is only necessary if we think the backing file format will change much more. Comments welcome. Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message