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Subject: Re: RFC: Change mtree nsec handling? 
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In message <4982CBC7.5050102@FreeBSD.org>, Maxim Sobolev writes:
>Tim Kientzle wrote:

>> Any concerns about this?
>
>Given the age of mtree(8) I guess there are lot of existing mtree specs 
>out there who rely on this behavior. Therefore, IMHO the right thing to 
>do would be either note this in the documentation and let it be, or mark 
>"time" keyword as depreciated and add some new keyword for example 
>"timestamp". The new keyword will be generated by default by mtree(8) 
>instead of "time" and will do the right thing. Then, in few years from 
>now "time" could be deorbited.

This is way overkill.

We are not in the business of rococo decoration.

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