vfs_fruit option fruit:resource

[Ralph Böhme]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 02:06:57PM +0100, Stefan Metzmacher wrote:
> Hi Ralph,
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 04:07:07PM +0530, Shilpa K wrote:
> >> Filed bug https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12412
> > 
> > thanks! Patch attached.
> > 
> > Someone please review & push if ok. Thanks!
> 
> I'd argue that we should not silently change the behavior of existing
> installations, just with an 'apt-get upgrade' from 4.5.1 to 4.5.2.
> 
> I see two ways forward:
> 
> 1)
> - just change the manpage in 4.5 and older
> - do an incompatible change for 4.6 and use
>   'fruit:resource' with a fallback to 'fruit:ressource'
> - document the mess in the 4.6 manpage
> 2)
> - use a new name e.g. 'fruit:resource method' with a fallback
>   to 'fruit:ressource'
> - document the new name and the broken legacy in the manpage
> - Here we would be able to backport the patches to 4.5 and older
>   and have it at least consistent between 4.5.next, 4.4.next and 4.6.0
> 
> I'd tend to 2).

I'd prefer to wipe the slate as clean as possible, hopefully most
people weren't setting "fruit:resource" to any non-default value
anyway.

Option 1) that means for me, still thinking about it...

Cheerio!
-slow