On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <[email protected]> wrote:
... > Manual page is in the same place as source code, so it doesn't really > matter if we merge geli.8 or geom_eli.c. I was planing to put this into > manual page as well, but I think that having it only in the manual page > should be enough indeed. Ok. >> Also, I like the thought of having a separate subcommand -- version -- >> for displaying the version output of a geli image. It seems like: >> >> geli upgrade md0 > > You meant 'version' here, right? Actually, I meant upgrade. Having to explicitly call out the version instead of implying the version that one needs to upgrade to just seems unnecessary / less intuitive. >> should just upgrade md0 to the latest supported metadata format >> instead of printing out the metadata version, as the implied metadata >> version should be the latest one by default. > > Well, as I said, upgrading is often not possible, as it would require > rewrite of all the data, as the code assumes for example that if this is > version X, IV should be calculated this way and if it Y some other way, > etc. Yeah.. and you'll have to build a valid version matrix, and block off certain upgrade paths, etc. Having worked with complicated packaging systems, I understand your concerns :). Thanks! -Garrett _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
