Ryusuke Konishi wrote: > (reply added to "Yann E. MORIN") > > Hi, > On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:31:56 +0200, "Yann E. MORIN" wrote: >> Hello All! >> >> I've searched the archives, but could not find the answer to the >> following questions: >> >> - will there be, or what is the probability of, a disk format change >> in the near future (few months)? > > We still have some possibilities for the format change at this time. > > Basically I intend to keep the disk format, but some new features like > > - Extended attributes, ACLs > - Rollback > - Checkpoint based remote replication > > may require it. So far, we haven't seen any specific requisition. >
Do you expect that any of the changes may impact the ability of utilities such as blkid or file to recognize a nilfs filesystem? I'd happily write patches for those utilities to add nilfs recognition if you think there is a stable fingerprint that can be recognized. Thanks, -Eric _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://www.nilfs.org/mailman/listinfo/users
