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Cc: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mill@aldan.algebra.com>, questions@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Automatic `nodump' flag? 
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> The dump program runs on the raw disk partition dumping sequentially
> by inode number. So, it has no idea of the file-tree hierarchy. Thus
> any propagation of the "nodump" flag would have to be done by the

Yes, dump DO descend to check for nodump flags - while doing backup for 
raw filesystem. there is enough to set nodump flag to directory, and no 
files in it will be backed up