vfs_fruit option fruit:resource

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Nov 8 17:35:23 UTC 2016


On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 02:15:51PM +0100, Ralph Böhme wrote:
> 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...

Can't we just make 'fruit:resource' and 'fruit:ressource'
synonyms, and accept either ? That's the way we've handled
such things in the past.



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