Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g110M9x14603 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 16:22:09 -0800 Received: from smtpzilla5.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla5.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.141]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id g110M6d14580 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 16:22:06 -0800 Received: from auto-nb1.xs4all.nl (qn-212-58-167-191.quicknet.nl [212.58.167.191]) by smtpzilla5.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g0VNM0rX011624; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 00:22:00 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020201001908.02cb9f48@pop.xs4all.nl> X-Sender: knuffie@pop.xs4all.nl X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 00:20:27 +0100 To: stimits@idcomm.com, "XFS: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com" From: Seth Mos Subject: Re: [NEWS] Extended attributes interface changes In-Reply-To: <3C59CE74.E5D20B9D@idcomm.com> References: <20020201095217.F88469@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Status: O Content-Length: 548 Lines: 18 At 16:08 31-1-2002 -0700, D. Stimits wrote: >Do I read this correctly, it appears that only tools and kernels change, >current XFS filesystems themselves will remain unchanged for this >purpose, and fully compatible with newer tools and kernels? The on-disk format will not change. Doing so would break Irix compatibility. I don't think it will ever change, if it does it won't be called XFS but perhaps XFSv2 :-) Cheers -- Seth Every program has two purposes one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't I use the last kind.