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Re: [Xen-devel] Domain Save Image Format proposal (draft B)

To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:07:37 +0000
Cc: Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@xxxxxxxxx>, Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>, Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Delivery-date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:08:00 +0000
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Andrew Cooper writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Domain Save Image Format proposal (draft 
B)"):
> No need.  Any unrecognised records can be safely ignored.  Any record
> which couldn't be ignored would be required to bump the main stream
> version number at which point the older reader would bail on that basis.

See my other comment about why I don't like version numbers for
forward compatibility in free software.

Ian.

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- Re: [Xen-devel] Domain Save Image Format proposal (draft B)
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