Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262702AbVAFByP (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:54:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262704AbVAFByP (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:54:15 -0500 Received: from mail-in-04.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.44]:42455 "EHLO mail-in-04.arcor-online.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262702AbVAFByL (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:54:11 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 02:58:52 +0100 (CET) From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> To: Nicholas Miell Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] get/set FAT filesystem attribute bits In-Reply-To: <1104970545.3810.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <1104970545.3810.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 959 Lines: 27 On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Nicholas Miell wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 01:07 +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote: > > H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > By author: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> > > >> > a = archive > > >> > > >> Should be the "dump" attribute > > > > > What dump attribute? > > > > The one described in man chattr. > > You mean "no dump (d)", the attribute that says this file should never > be backed up and is in no way related to the Archive bit, which says > that this file has been modified since the last time the Archive bit was > cleared? It seems I misread the manpage. Dump will by default backup 'no dump' files if it's not creating an incremental backup, so I asumed it would set the flag on backup. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/