From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 17 03:27:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E981637B404; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 03:27:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from franky.speednet.com.au (franky.speednet.com.au [203.57.65.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC54243FCB; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 03:27:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (hewey.af.speednet.com.au [203.38.96.242])h3HAR2l1080319; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 20:27:02 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (hewey.af.speednet.com.au [203.38.96.242])h3HAR1g9002252; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 20:27:01 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 20:27:00 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-X-Sender: andyf@hewey.af.speednet.com.au To: "Paul M. Lambert" In-Reply-To: <20030417075306.GZ71088@slappy.plambert.net> Message-ID: <20030417194056.B795-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chflags "archived" flag? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:27:08 -0000 [cc'd to -fs because you might have more clue..] > > chflags(1) and chflags(2) and chflags(3) all mention SF_ARCHIVED as a flag > that the superuser can set on a file or directory. > > My question is simple: what's this flag do? Does it have any effect? > Short answer: nothing. no. Its only there to support msdos(5) type file systems. -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/