Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 00:20:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/39849: /sbin/restore fails to overwrite files with schg flag set Message-ID: <200206270720.g5R7K3rb062759@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/39849; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com>
To: "Michael C. Adler" <mad1@tapil.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/39849: /sbin/restore fails to overwrite files with schg flag set
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 00:15:41 -0700
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 01:24:31PM -0400, Michael C. Adler wrote:
[snip]
> Incremental restore fails to overwrite an older file that has a flag
> set making the file immutable.
I really think this is a feature and not a bug. However, I can see
where one might want this. I think the right way would be to have a
command line switch which enables this [su]chg-flag clobbering, and
leave the default as-is.
Note that there are other, tougher issues when doing restores on an
existing filesystem when names collide (e.g. does restore(8)
over-write an existing directory with a plain file from backup?).
Handling this issue by running a,
# chflags -R 0 /filesystem/path
Before a restore(8) is fairly trivial.
--
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| cjclark@jhu.edu
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