Re: [PATCH 1/4] Btrfs: send, bump stream version

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On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 05:40:18PM +0100, Filipe David Borba Manana wrote:
> This increases the send stream version from version 1 to version 2, adding
> 2 new commands:
> 
> 1) total data size - used to tell the receiver how much file data the stream
>    will add or update;
> 
> 2) fallocate - used to pre-allocate space for files and to punch holes in files.
> 
> This is preparation work for subsequent changes that implement the new features
> (computing total data size and use fallocate for better performance).

Are these changes compatible with software using the old stream version? We
have snapshotting tools that are using send/recieve and it would be bad to
change the ABI in incompatible ways underneath them.
	--Mark

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