Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat at sun.com> wrote:
> Timothy Haley - Sun Microsystem wrote:
> > 3.3 Third-Party Requested Attributes
> >
> > The following attributes have been requested by a third-party vendor
> > porting ZFS to a different platform. Solaris will not set these
> > attributes nor will there be any sematics associated with them.
> > Callers will be permitted to read the attributes. Attempts to set
> > these attributes will fail with EPERM.
> >
> > NODUMP
> > Solaris has no special semantics for this attribute.
>
> This one seems useful on Solaris. Assuming the name is reflective of
> its purpose it says to me that files with this attribute should not be
> included in backups. For example tar/cpio/pax might pay attention to
> that attribute but 'zfs send' would not.
Star does pay attention to this flag since 2001
J?rg
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