Hi Nathan,

> Can we relax this to say "no substantive changes"?
> If we fix a typo or even wording:
> "[1234] lustre has dropped the ball and erased all your data" to
> "[1234] an irrecoverable error has occurred and erased all filesystem data"
> doesn't seem to me that it should require a new message number.  Parsing 
> tools should
> just check the number and not worry about the exact contents of the message.
> I think that's the whole point of having a [number] in the first place.

Perhaps, but what about a typo fix, for example:

-Lustre [ID 1234]: Server handling error on servr [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
+Lustre [ID 1234]: Server handling error on server [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
transaction 11602746/0, opcode 42 returned -2

Looks innocent enough, except the web-based parser may be depending on
the word "servr" to pick out the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" NID.

I think to avoid problems like this, we need to ban reuse across the
board.  I don't think Lustre messages are changed often enough that we
need to worry about running out of numbers.

Cheers,
Jody

> 
> I'll agree that for messages like
> 
> Lustre [ID 1234]: Server handling error on server [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> transaction 11602746/0, opcode 42 returned -2
> 
> we can't change the keyword preceding and data items

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