Re: Re: [PATCH] get/set FAT filesystem attribute bits

[Bodo Eggert]

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@xxxxxx>

> > >> > 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.

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