On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:46:33 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>>   A file with the ‘d’ attribute set is not candidate for backup when
>>   the dump(8) program is run.
> 
> Yeah. Sadly, as far as I can tell, nobody actually uses it. Windows
> programs don't even turn off the archive bit on cache files.

So maybe it's not that the filesystem needs the capability, but that 
programmers need to use it?

Jim

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