[dm-devel] mirroring: [patch 5 of 6] device failure tolerance

[Alasdair G Kergon]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 11:38:28AM -0500, Kevin Corry wrote:
> Any time a target's table-format or status-format changes, we also need to 
> increment that target's version number so user-space can figure out which 
> format to expect.
 
Indeed, but I don't want version numbers updating till we know what
sequence things will go upstream.

BTW I've not seen a justification for breaking the existing format here
yet as opposed to simply appending new data to the end of the status line.

Alasdair
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