Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 04:29:32 -0500 (CDT) From: Don Read <dread@texas.net> To: "Paul M. Lambert" <plambert@plambert.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chflags "archived" flag? Message-ID: <XFMail.20030417042932.dread@texas.net> In-Reply-To: <20030417081704.GA71088@slappy.plambert.net>
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On 17-Apr-2003 Paul M. Lambert wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Don Read wrote:
>
>>
>> On 17-Apr-2003 Paul M. Lambert wrote:
>> <snip>
>>
>> > So, what am I missing? What does it do?
>> >
>>
>> man dump
>>
>
> % man dump | grep -i arch
> FreeBSD 4.6 March 1, 2002
> FreeBSD 4.6
>
> The only mention in the man page for dump of any flag is the SF_NODUMP
> flag, which means "don't dump this." It's ignored for a dump of
> level 0 by default...
>
> So what does the _ARCHIVED_ flag do?
>
> --plambert
My mistake.
Most of my boxes are SysV, where dump sets the archive bit as each file is
written to tape.
greping thru FreeBSD dump gets zilich.
A 'find /usr/src -type f -exec grep ARCHIVED /dev/null {} \;' suggests only
contrb/tar fiddles with it.
Not what I expected.
Regards,
--
Don Read dread@texas.net
-- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to
steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.
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