On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:36:24AM -0600, Bill Kendall wrote: > On 02/12/2012 05:47 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >Looks generally good to me, but is there any good reason to not make > >the -K argument extensible by requiring a version argument, even if > >that one currently only supports 2 and 3 as valid values? > > I thought about doing that, but given the low frequency of format > changes decided it could wait until there's more than one old format > to support. -K without an argument could be treated as "generate > the previous media format", or with an argument it could generate > a specific format. I'm okay with requiring a version argument though, > being explicit is better. > > FWIW, the way things have always worked is that xfsrestore provides > backwards compatibility for all dump formats. xfsdump has, until > now, always generated the current format. It's nice to provide > the ability to generate old formats during a transition period, > but long-term I don't see xfsdump retaining support for generating > all old formats. Ok, sounds fine. I'll put it into the repository and after that we should aim for an xfsdump 3.1.0 release ASAP. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
