Duane Wessels wrote:
> putting such a change into the 2.x line violates our "promise"
> that all 2.x versions would be store-wise compatible. People
> would have to run ugly converters, etc.
Have we promised forward compability (that files created with a newer
version is equally usable by a older release) or only backward
compability?
There is actually no need to change the on-disk object format, only
swap.state. I have always disliked how the "swap meta" information only
is a raw dump from the StoreEntry. It should be a strucure of it's own.
The object meta information is not a big deal. The format is extensible
and allows for changes (new meta format -> new identifier). The
swap.state is a trickier issue as there is no room for version
information.
/Henrik
Received on Mon Mar 27 2000 - 17:09:31 MST
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