From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 16 18:10:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-201-166.mmcable.com [65.31.201.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E155F37B417 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:10:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 32141 invoked by uid 100); 17 Jan 2002 02:10:24 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15430.12944.372926.781882@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:10:24 -0600 To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HOWTO -- backup onto CDRs? In-Reply-To: <50528916@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.44 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.4-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gary W. Swearingen types: > Looks like /usr/include/sys/stat.h has the definitive list and it adds > something called a "whiteout". Never heard of it; maybe it's not > supported by other code, or just used by the system software. (The > "find" man page agrees with perl.) They get mentioned in the rm and mknod(2) man pages. Find actually knows about them - it's "-type w", even though it's not documented. As far as I can tell, the only thing that actually creates whiteouts is restore, which seems to use it to create slots in directories before going back and restoring the actual files in them. Which is vaguely related to the Subject line. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message