Re: Moving to oak-segment-tar with Oak 1.6?

[Robert Munteanu <ro...@apache.org>]

On Mon, 2017-01-16 at 12:56 +0200, Robert Munteanu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I the Oak 1.6 release cycle a new file-based persistence was
> introduced, spun off from oak-segment.
> 
> It's called oak-segment-tar, and to my knowledge it's supposed to be
> 'oak-segment, but done better'. oak-segment is also deprecated now.
> 
> I would suggest moving to oak-segment-tar with our current setup,
> which
> �would mean:
> 
> - including oak-segment-tar.jar instead of oak-segment.jar
> - configuring a different service in the Sling launchpad
> 
> The only downside is that the repository formats are not compatible,
> so
> one would need to use oak-run to convert from oak-segment to oak-
> segment-tar. I think that's not a huge deal for the Sling launchpad
> though.
> 
> Thoughts?


Since we seem to be in agreement, I've filed

  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-6628

and started work on this.

Robert