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Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 17:49:31 +0000 (UTC)
From: Thorsten Glaser <mirabilos@users.sourceforge.net>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Moving ext3 journal file
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Dixitur de H. Peter Anvin respondebo ad:
> Andreas Dilger wrote:
(...)
> > Because .journal is created as immutable, even if it was backed up and
> > tried to be restored, it would be impossible to write to.  For the
> > "accursed" ext2 dump, it recognizes the "nodump" flag, but also knows
> > enough not to back up the journal file.  Sadly, neither cpio or tar
> > know about ext2 attributes.
> Nor scp, nor rsync, nor find, nor...

Neither they do about UCB FFS attributes... they even have separate
user/system immutable flags :)

What about pax(1)? I guess it doesn't either, because cpio is just pax.

-mirabilos
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