On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 07:46:13PM -0800, Ryan Cumming wrote:
> On November 19, 2001 19:43, you wrote:
> > What are unintented consequences for not removing it?
> >
> > I.e., backups.
> It already has the "Don't back me up" attribute set ('d'), and I've come
> across absolutely no problems running my system with it lurking in my root
> directory.
Which, as I understand it, only applies to dump for ext2fs.
Dump does not reliably work with live file systems with 2.4.x Linus
has even gone on record stating that he does not approve that approach, so
don't expect that to change.
What versions of gtar, star, find|cpio, amanda, or whatever, know how to
handle the `d' attribute?
mrc
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