<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Steve Grubb wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:200808121632.55341.sgrubb@redhat.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Tuesday 12 August 2008 16:11:42 Eric Paris wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">As soon as you grasp that article send me the code and we'll work together to fix this problem! </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> And any code created needs to be backwards compatible. you could have new user space/new kernel, or new user space/old kernel, and new kernel/old user space.</pre> </blockquote> The fact you can have any combination of kernel, user code, and historical log files is precisely why this need to be fixed ASAP. Why? Because there is no value in being backwards compatible with a data stream you can't read when any of the three components (kernel, user libraries, files) are permuted. The longer we archive log data with this problem the worse the problem gets. The fact the triplet <kernel, user libraries, file> have to be in sync is untenable in the long run. <blockquote cite="mid:200808121632.55341.sgrubb@redhat.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">You have no way of dictating which versions of anything people will use. </pre> </blockquote> Thank you for making my point :-) <blockquote cite="mid:200808121632.55341.sgrubb@redhat.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">-Steve </pre> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- John Dennis <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jdennis@redhat.com"><jdennis@redhat.com></a> </pre> </body> </html>