Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 19:11:15 -0800 From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Propagating the nodump flag Message-ID: <20010303031115.7AEFB3E0C@bazooka.unixfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <200103020736.f227avd55031@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on "Fri, 02 Mar 2001 00:36:57 -0700"
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Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> writes: > In message <20010301041234.9F3D63E09@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Dima Dorfman writ > es: > : Comments? Reviews? > > These patches look generally good. I didn't check them for perfect > accuracy because they touch a part of dump that makes my head hurt > every time I look at the code. It seems reasonable to me. Thanks, Warner. I've also attached a manual page update which I accidently left out of the patch I posted. The updated patch can be found at http://www.unixfreak.org/~dima/home/nodump2.diff; the only difference is the update to the man page. If someone could commit this, I'd appreciate it. Thanks again Dima Dorfman dima@unixfreak.org Index: dump.8 =================================================================== RCS file: /st/src/FreeBSD/src/sbin/dump/dump.8,v retrieving revision 1.31 diff -u -r1.31 dump.8 --- dump.8 2000/12/18 15:16:10 1.31 +++ dump.8 2001/03/03 03:03:44 @@ -243,6 +243,20 @@ .El .Pp .Nm Dump +honors the user +.Dq nodump +flag +.Pq Dv UF_NODUMP +on regular files and directories. If a directory is marked +.Dq nodump , +the latter and all files and directories under it will not be backed +up. That is, +.Nm +propagates the +.Dq nodump +flag on directories. +.Pp +.Nm Dump requires operator intervention on these conditions: end of tape, end of dump, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message
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