Re: acct v3 support

[Ryan Lovett <ryan@stat.Berkeley.EDU>]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 04:50:03PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This breaks the accounting format, so it's a change that needs a lot
> of thought.

Okay, thanks for considering this.

The file http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/utils/acct/readme.txt
mentions:

  Note that the --raw option of dump-acct makes for a nice little format
  converter together with the new --format and --byteswap options, if
  multiformat support is compiled in.
  It works in any direction, which particularly means you don't get locked
  into using this special version of the accounting tools. Rather, you
  might back out at any time and in any direction (v0 or v3 format).
  
  You might decide to completely switch over to v3 format and use
  multiformat-enabled acct tools only once during conversion.
  v3 format is source compatible with unmodified GNU acct 6.3.5, but
  only if v0/v1/v2 format is completely removed from the kernel (see acct
  cleanup patch at http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/2.7/) and
  the resulting linux/include/acct.h file is copied into /usr/include/linux
  before ./configure is invoked.

among other things.

Ryan