Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 22:08:20 +0100 From: Mark Hannon <mark.hannon@stockholm.mail.telia.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Change to inherit nodump flag? Message-ID: <36C0A3C4.E9CDA301@stockholm.mail.telia.com>
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Hi,
I dump some of my filesystems to my (small) floppy tape drive as backup.
This works quite well as long as I only dump my own data files. To
avoid
dumping easily recoverable files I run a script which runs:
chflags -R nodump /home/ncvs
chflags -R nodump /home/freebsd-src
chflags -R nodump /home/freebsd-obj
prior to starting the dump. As you can imagine this traversal of the
tree
is a time consuming affair. As a way around this I thought maybe the
nodump flags could be made inheritable, ie I would only need to set
nodump on the parent directory and then all subdirs and files would
also get nodump marked. Is this a good idea?
I had a quick look in the code and I am guessing that I should implement
such a change in:
/sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_vnops.c in functions ufs_makeinode & ufs_mkdir
Is this where the functionality should be implemented?
Regards/Mark
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