[H-GEN] Hardware Upgrade

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Robert Brockway <robert at timetraveller.org> writes:

> On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, David Jericho wrote:
> > Robert wrote:
> > > ext2/3 is supposed to be have this capability also: chattr +d filename
> > > Last time I tried this it didn't work iirc :(
> > It does, from chattr(1)
> > "A file with the `d' attribute set is not candidate for backup when the
> > dump(8) program is run."
> > I just tried it then, and it worked fine.
> Interesting.  I wanted to use this to stop old dump files lying on a
> particular filesystem (couldn't put them anywhere else at the time) from
> being caught up in a backup.  There was some caveat or "gotcha" but I've
> forgotten exactly what problem I saw now.

Perhaps the version of dump you were using didn't honor the flag.
It's not unknown for a filesystem's tools to lag behind the
filesystem's functionality.
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