From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 19 13:52:20 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 4870B37BD3E; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:52:14 -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 QAA28833; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 16:51:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 16:51:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG, 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 FYI: I committed the addition of the magic number and version information an hour or two ago. It seems to work fine for me, but please let me know if you have any problems. A migration tool doesn't seem useful yet, but is now feasible :-). In a day or two, I'll send a post to freebsd-fs describing possible upsides and downsides to moving to a more integrated attribute mechanism instead of (and/or in addition to) backing files. 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