Re: Recent commit changes extattr backing file format, users beware

2000-04-19 Thread Robert Watson
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 descri

Re: Recent commit changes extattr backing file format, users beware

2000-04-19 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 3:41 AM -0400 4/19/00, 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

Re: Recent commit changes extattr backing file format, users beware

2000-04-19 Thread Boris Popov
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 versio

Recent commit changes extattr backing file format, users beware

2000-04-19 Thread Robert Watson
I just committed a change to the extended attribute backing code that modifies the per-attribute header. The result is that backing files used and created from now on have a different format, and weird and unfortunate things will happen with backing files before this change. I doubt anyone is do