TDB: using the jenkins hash for non-persistent tdbs
Rusty Russell
rusty at rustcorp.com.au
Sun Sep 19 20:54:58 MDT 2010
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:55:02 pm Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> If the jenkins hash is used, we set the rwlocks field in the tdb header
> to a magic value.
> Current tdb versions expect this to be 0 and fail the open.
Unfortunately, this is an ABI break. Someone using TDB and a non-default
hash won't be able to open their old TDBs any more.
My original version used the same trick, but I reluctantly replaced it with
your other 100% backwards-compatible version. That's the price we pay for
exporting tdb as a standalone library.
The only way we could do this is as a separate flag to tdb_open, eg.
TDB_INCOMPATIBLE_HASH or something. I'm not sure that's worthwhile though?
Thanks,
Rusty.
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