[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 15/03/2007 19:26:48:

> * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

> > Trying to dump a filesystem with nodump flags on some folders results 
in 
> > these folders been dumped anyway, even on higher level dump and even 
if I 
> > specify -h flag to dump.

> Your correct, the nodump flag on directories has no affect on the files
> within that directory.  Both Free and Net have patched their respective
> versions to change that behaviour.

I didn't know the history of dump, thank you for the explanation.

> I'm working on a patch.  The hold up is digging through restore to make
> sure I do this correctly.  No point in frogging up dumpinomap,
> dumpdirmap, and usedinomap if restore doesn't do what you expect.

Why should this interfere with restore? I was thinking of re-reading the 
source and find a way to do that, but in a way similar to what "chflags -R 
nodump ..." would achive, skipping the entire directory.

Maybe I know too little of the process, though.

D.

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