Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:34:28 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Mark Hannon <mark.hannon@stockholm.mail.telia.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Change to inherit nodump flag? Message-ID: <199902092334.PAA61881@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990209151210.5802O-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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:I don't think this is a good idea
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:a better idea is to make th eapplication not descend into trees that have
:the nodump bit set on the directory.
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:you can't "inherrit" all the way up a directory tree when it's moved
:into a directory with the nodump flag set.
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:(I have the same problem with the SUIDDIR option in around the same
:piece of code..)
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:julian
True, but on the otherhand the FS implementation of 'nodump'
inheritance would save your butt if you accidently renamed a
directory/file into a 'nodump' subdirectory that you really wanted
to dump - it would still back it up.
After all, what happens when you rename a file with group A into a
directory with group B ? The group doesn't change. And it shouldn't.
-Matt
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