Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 11:44:08AM -0300, Fabiano Rosas wrote: >> But of course, that means we cannot claim to support all kinds of >> forward migrations anymore. Only those in the 6 year period. > > That "6 years" comes from machine type deprecation period, and migration > compatibility is mostly only attached to machine types, and we only ever > allowed migration with the same machine type. > > It means, >6 years migration will never work anyway as soon as we start to > deprecate machine types (irrelevant of any reuse of UNUSED), because the >6 > years machine types will simply be gone.. See configuration_post_load(), > where it'll throw an error upfront when machine type mismatched. Yes, duh! What am I talking about...