From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 9 23:52:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C2F737B406 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 23:52:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parv@worldnet.att.net) Received: from worldnet.att.net ([32.100.199.216]) by mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010810065206.GYKK15499.mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net@worldnet.att.net> for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 06:52:06 +0000 Received: by worldnet.att.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0FE8050BC9; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 02:49:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 02:49:30 -0400 From: parv To: f-q Subject: what's the purpose of arch, opaque, & nodump flags? Message-ID: <20010810024930.A97062@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: f-q Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 i read the man pages for chflags (1,2) but couldn't determine the real purpose, so i ask... does "nodump" implies that when a fs is dumped, the file w/ this flag will not be dumped? if this flag is applied to a directory, would the contents of the directory be dumped, or not? what does it mean if file is "opaque" in a "union stack"? and "arch" ... no clue, no speculation, waiting enlightenment. -- so, do you like word games or scrabble? - parv To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message