[H-GEN] Hardware Upgrade

[Greg Black]

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Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
| 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.

This is true enough.  And sometimes the tools improve with
time.  The FreeBSD dump only honoured the nodump flag for files
until relatively recently; it now applies recursively to
directories that have the flag and that's a great step forward.

Greg

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