Hi Carsten,

Carsten Neumann wrote:
>       Hi,
> 
> before you start screaming at me, because of the subject line, please
> let me explain the issues:
> 1) AFAICS the current implementation writes the AttachmentMap without
> binding information and hence is not able to handle multiple attachments
> with the same group id on a single container.

That's a bug that needs to be fixed, and for that changes can't be avoided 
anyway.

> 2) Ptr mfields write size information twice, once as the binary size of
> the field and then as the number of elements in the field.

Seems to be minor enough to not worry about it, IMHO...

> These changes will make the OSB format identical to what is transmitted
> in the cluster, because for writing the copyToBin methods can be used,
> instead of custom code (for reading custom code can not be avoided).
> This will simplify the generic parts of OSB i/o.

...but that makes it absolutely worthwhile.

> Loading of 1.x OSB files will still be supported, but since there was no
> release of 2 I don't think we need to support the current format.

Fine with me, please go ahead and do it.

        Dirk


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