[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.
