"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilb...@redhat.com> wrote: > * Juan Quintela (quint...@redhat.com) wrote: >> We need to send this field when we add compression support. As we are >> still on x- stage, we can do this kind of changes. >> >> Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quint...@redhat.com> > > OK, so that kind of makes sense - in that what you want to do is read > the whole compressed chunk in one go. > > Consider it might be a good idea to add some spare entries here; > say a uint64_t dummy[4] so that if you need any more fields in the > future it'll be easy to add them without breaking compatibility.
We have a version field, so ... we can handle it relatively gratiously, but I see your point. How many? Later, Juan.
