[fedfs-utils] [PATCH] NFSD: Change name of extended attribute containing junction

[Jeff Layton]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:52:59 -0500
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields at fieldses.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 02:38:43PM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
> > As of fedfs-utils-0.8.0, user space stores all NFS junction
> > information in a single extended attribute: "trusted.junction.nfs".
> 
> I suspect the break of backwards-compatibility is fine, but we should
> add a note explaining it; would something like this be right?:
> 
> 	This breaks compatibility with fedfs-utils versions before
> 	0.8.0.  As fedfs-utils has not been widely distributed, we don't
> 	believe this will affect anyone.
> 
> (Cc'ing jlayton: does this cause a problem for whatever just went into
> Fedora?)
> 

Also cc'ing Ian, on whose shoulders I dumped the fedfs work...

That stuff just went into Fedora rawhide, and as everyone knows (or
should) -- rawhide eats babies. At this point I don't think there's any
need to worry about compatibility issues.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>