How about adding the nodump flag processing in tar?
Something like:
--- /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/tar/create.c Wed Aug 11 09:03:39 1999
+++ create.c Wed Nov 21 13:52:54 2001
@@ -817,6 +817,8 @@
strcpy (namebuf + len, d->d_name);
if (f_exclude && check_exclude (namebuf))
continue;
+ if (hstat.st_flags & UF_NODUMP)
+ continue;
dump_file (namebuf, our_device, 0);
}
Or something like this patch I've submited to the GNU tar mailing
list:
diff -r -u tar-1.13.orig/src/common.h tar-1.13/src/common.h
--- tar-1.13.orig/src/common.h Tue Nov 20 15:04:26 2001
+++ tar-1.13/src/common.h Tue Nov 20 15:14:49 2001
@@ -143,6 +143,9 @@
/* Boolean value. */
GLOBAL int dereference_option;
+/* Boolean value. */
+GLOBAL int honor_nodump_option;
+
/* Patterns that match file names to be excluded. */
GLOBAL struct exclude *excluded;
diff -r -u tar-1.13.orig/src/create.c tar-1.13/src/create.c
--- tar-1.13.orig/src/create.c Tue Nov 20 15:04:25 2001
+++ tar-1.13/src/create.c Tue Nov 20 15:18:14 2001
@@ -1483,6 +1483,12 @@
if (is_dot_or_dotdot (entry->d_name)
|| excluded_filename (excluded, entry->d_name))
continue;
+#ifdef __FreeBSD__
+ /* If file has NODUMP flag set, ignore it. Accordingly skip
+ the whole tree under a directory. */
+ if (honor_nodump_option && (current_stat.st_flags & UF_NODUMP))
+ continue;
+#endif
if ((int) NAMLEN (entry) + len >= buflen)
{
diff -r -u tar-1.13.orig/src/tar.c tar-1.13/src/tar.c
--- tar-1.13.orig/src/tar.c Tue Nov 20 15:04:26 2001
+++ tar-1.13/src/tar.c Tue Nov 20 15:21:57 2001
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@
{"gunzip", no_argument, NULL, 'z'},
{"gzip", no_argument, NULL, 'z'},
{"help", no_argument, &show_help, 1},
+ {"honor-nodump", no_argument, NULL, 'H'},
{"ignore-failed-read", no_argument, &ignore_failed_read_option, 1},
{"ignore-zeros", no_argument, NULL, 'i'},
/* FIXME: --ignore-end as a new name for --ignore-zeros? */
@@ -416,7 +417,7 @@
Y per-block gzip compression */
#define OPTION_STRING \
- "-01234567ABC:F:GK:L:MN:OPRST:UV:WX:Zb:cdf:g:hiklmoprstuvwxz"
+ "-01234567ABC:F:GHK:L:MN:OPRST:UV:WX:Zb:cdf:g:hiklmoprstuvwxz"
static void
set_subcommand_option (enum subcommand subcommand)
@@ -623,6 +624,12 @@
/* Follow symbolic links. */
dereference_option = 1;
+ break;
+
+ case 'H':
+ /* Honor NODUMP flag. */
+
+ honor_nodump_option = 1;
break;
case 'i':
BTW, the ancient GNU tar (1.11.2) FreeBSD has bundled with the system
happens to have a bug that makes it inconvenient with modern tapes.
The tape length (option -L) is stored in a signed integer; a DAT DDS-2
is already too big for that.
I would recommend to upgrade to the new 1.13, which, together with a
brand new set of bugs, introduces the TARLONG type to store such
informations as tape length.
--
walter pelissero
http://www.pelissero.org
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