RFC: Change mtree nsec handling?
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Jan 30 02:10:48 PST 2009
In message <4982CBC7.5050102 at FreeBSD.org>, Maxim Sobolev writes:
>Tim Kientzle wrote:
>> Any concerns about this?
>
>Given the age of mtree(8) I guess there are lot of existing mtree specs
>out there who rely on this behavior. Therefore, IMHO the right thing to
>do would be either note this in the documentation and let it be, or mark
>"time" keyword as depreciated and add some new keyword for example
>"timestamp". The new keyword will be generated by default by mtree(8)
>instead of "time" and will do the right thing. Then, in few years from
>now "time" could be deorbited.
This is way overkill.
We are not in the business of rococo decoration.
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