[PATCH v2] File Server Remote VSS Protocol server

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Mar 24 10:39:57 MDT 2015


On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 05:37:23PM +0100, David Disseldorp wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:17:23 +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> 
> > > Sure, the only thing I'm not clear on is if you will
> > > accept it as-is with tdb_pack and a promise to upgrade
> > > PIDL to understand tdb_pack format, or you'd prefer
> > > an NDR encoding initially (personally I think changing
> > > to NDR wouldn't be too bad, but I'm not doing the work
> > > so don't get to chose :-) ?  
> > 
> > My strong preference would be NDR initially, but if the overwhelming
> > majority wants this in with tdb_pack, I won't block it.
> 
> I'll do the NDR conversion and repost.
> 
> Just so that everything is out in the open, I should mention that we
> (SUSE) currently ship a distribution with this database version, so
> any changes to the on-disk format will require a patch on our side to
> handle version upgrades, hence the extra test time needed, etc.
> 
> Nothing too surprising - karma giving me slap on the wrist for not
> putting in the effort to get this stuff upstream first ;)

No problem - thanks for letting us know (I thought this code
looked too good to be a first effort, must have been through
some production testing :-) :-).

Cheers,

	Jeremy.


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