From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 19 4:40:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.butya.kz (butya-gw.butya.kz [212.154.129.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B721D37BB3C; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 04:40:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bp@butya.kz) Received: from bp (helo=localhost) by relay.butya.kz with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12hspu-000OKi-00; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 18:40:02 +0700 Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 18:40:02 +0700 (ALMST) From: Boris Popov To: Robert Watson Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recent commit changes extattr backing file format, users beware In-Reply-To: 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 On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Robert Watson wrote: > 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. I'm vote for the version number at the begining of file header. You may wish to change a header, change file layout etc., because extattr support is just born and should reserve a way to grow. In addition, it allows to write a simple 'extattrupgrade' utility which will make above tasks more transparent to the end users. (extattrdowngrade also may have some use :) -- Boris Popov http://www.butya.kz/~bp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message