vfs_fruit option fruit:resource

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Nov 9 17:02:36 UTC 2016


On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 12:29:49PM +0100, Ralph Böhme wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 10:05:33AM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > 
> > Oh, that does make things difficult...
> > 
> > How about just changing the paramter name going forward.
> > 
> > fruit:resource_store
> > 
> > becomes the correct name for 4.6. Detect but issue a warning
> > for existing 'fruit:resource =' paramter - request
> > the admin to change them to fruit:resource_store.
> 
> I really *hate* this solution. It leaves us with an inextricable mess
> in the future. 

Yes it's horrible.

> > Do we have a tool that can migrate the resource data from
> > one backend to another ?
> 
> No.

If we had such a tool (hint, hint :-), then it would be
much easier to just change the parameter name and ask
people to migrate on upgrade.

Just sayin'... :-).



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