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Date:      Sun, 10 Dec 2000 17:01:21 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: inheriting the "nodump" flag ? 
Message-ID:  <98900.976464081@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:25:04 %2B0100." <97286.976447504@critter> 

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In message <97286.976447504@critter>, Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
>
>I don't know how many of you know or even use the "nodump" file flag.
>
>It's utility is somewhat limited by the fact that it is not
>inherited from the parent directory.
>
>I like to mark my cvs tree as "nodump", there is no point in backing
>it up for me.
>
>Unfortunately, since the nodump flag is not inherited on creation
>I need to run "chflags -R nodump /home/ncvs" first every time I want
>to make a backup.
>
>I would like to propose that directories and files inherit the
>nodump flag if it is set on the directory they are created in.
>
>Comments ? protests ?

Attached is the surprisingly simple patch to implement this in ufs.

Index: ufs/ufs/ufs_vnops.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_vnops.c,v
retrieving revision 1.154
diff -u -r1.154 ufs_vnops.c
--- ufs/ufs/ufs_vnops.c	2000/11/04 08:10:56	1.154
+++ ufs/ufs/ufs_vnops.c	2000/12/10 15:30:25
@@ -1355,6 +1355,7 @@
 #endif
 #endif	/* !SUIDDIR */
 	ip->i_flag |= IN_ACCESS | IN_CHANGE | IN_UPDATE;
+	ip->i_flags |= (dp->i_flags & UF_NODUMP);
 	ip->i_mode = dmode;
 	tvp->v_type = VDIR;	/* Rest init'd in getnewvnode(). */
 	ip->i_effnlink = 2;
@@ -2071,6 +2072,7 @@
 		return (error);
 	ip = VTOI(tvp);
 	ip->i_gid = pdir->i_gid;
+	ip->i_flags |= (pdir->i_flags & UF_NODUMP);
 #ifdef SUIDDIR
 	{
 #ifdef QUOTA
--
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
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