Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:35:13 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Change to inherit nodump flag? Message-ID: <99Feb11.132448est.40350@border.alcanet.com.au>
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Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote: > Personally, I think this is the correct way of doing it - nodump > would be inherited just as directory gid is inherited. This sounds like the cleanest solution. > Another solution would be to hack the 'dump' program to be able to > remember 'nodump' recursively. I don't think that is as good a > solution as adjusting i_flags on create. Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> wrote: >a better idea is to make th eapplication not descend into trees that have >the nodump bit set on the directory. The problem with this is that dump(8) does not traverse the filesystem in a normal fashion. I suspect the code to implement this is non- trivial. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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