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Date:      Wed, 19 Apr 2000 03:41:15 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
To:        committers@freebsd.org
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Recent commit changes extattr backing file format, users beware
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000419033840.22429B-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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I just committed a change to the extended attribute backing code that
modifies the per-attribute header.  The result is that backing files used
and created from now on have a different format, and weird and unfortunate
things will happen with backing files before this change.  I doubt anyone
is doing more than mild experimentation at this point, but I thought a
heads up was in order.

I hope not to change the format any further.  I've been considering
introducing a backing file header version number of some sort, but this is
only necessary if we think the backing file format will change much more.

Comments welcome.

  Robert N M Watson 

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