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

[Ian Kent]

On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 17:26 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 05:19:57PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> OK, thanks.
> 
> (Chuck, that's the more important question to me than whether we declare
> done or not: if it's alpha-quality code but somebody nevertheless
> manages to get a working setup out of it, we try to be nice to them and
> not break that.  If it's only been distributed in rawhide, and only a
> little while, chances of that are very small, so fine.)

Yeah, alpha stage development shouldn't be constrained by backward
compatibly concerns. Of course a heads up to users is good too.

Ian