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 -- Mark Fasheh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
