On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 3:17 PM Alexander Larsson <alexl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ... > > I noticed you comment in composefs: > > > > * 1 - Mark xwhitouts using the new opaque=x format as needed by > > Linux 6.8 > > > > Note that this "fix" is aimed to be backported to v6.7.y, so there is > > no kernel > > version that is expected to retain support for the old format. > > Yes, but the composefs format needs to be bitwise reproducible, and > this change in the image will cause a different digest for the produced > image, so we can't just change what we generate, it has to be opt in to > users and able to reproduce previous versions. > I understand. I just meant that the comment about Linux 6.8 is a bit confusing. I guess that composefs version 0 is a pre-release version, if we are not counting v6.7 as a release that any distro is actually using... Thanks, Amir.
