> Why not use a terse XML format? I suppose we could, but I'm not convinced that XML is stable enough to be part of a 30-year on-disk format. 15 years ago PostScript was going to be stable forever, but today many PostScript readers barf on Adobe-PS-1.0 files -- which were supposed to be the most portable. They rely on %% structure comments (which were optional in 1.0), they can't handle a missing 'showpage', and so on.
I know, XML is supposed to be standard. THIS TIME they won't screw me. I just see way too many hands the XML cookie jar to trust it. You just can't argue with 8-bit-clean ASCII for long-term stability. Jeff _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
