[Box Backup] 0.10 release candidate 2

Per Thomsen boxbackup at fluffy.co.uk
Tue Jan 31 23:52:33 GMT 2006


On 1/31/06 3:41 PM, Martin Ebourne wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 15:29 -0800, Per Thomsen wrote:
>   
>> Is this non-destructive? I.e., can I do this with a fs, that hasn't had
>> xattrs turned on in the past?
>>     
>
> Yes you can, and it's non-destructive in that you won't loose any data.
>   
Great!
>> If so, I'll do the FC2 and FC3 tests with xattr turned on as well.
>>     
>
> Should be fine. Adding xattr will make changes on disk to support xattr
> of course, but it should not cause any problems, will not hurt any data,
> and as far as I know won't even affect backwards compatibility to old
> kernels (if you should want such a thing).
>   
Thanks. I was mostly worried about data loss, and what would happen if I
reverted.

Thanks,
Per

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