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 version number at the begining of file header.
You may wish to change a header, change file layout etc., because extattr
support is just born and should reserve a way to grow.
In addition, it allows to write a simple 'extattrupgrade' utility
which will make above tasks more transparent to the end users.
(extattrdowngrade also may have some use :)
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Boris Popov
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