Re: [NEWS] Extended attributes interface changes

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

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

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Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
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