Jim Henderson wrote:
> Well, arguably, there is - you put it in /tmp - most programs do that.  
> Then you just exclude the directory from your backups.

Well, yes, but programs don't do that. KDE doesn't put the fingernails 
there. Firefox doesn't put the cache files there. Thunderbird doesn't 
put the index files there. VI doesn't put .swp files there. Etc.

Basically, anyone who doesn't want to have to pick an arbitrary name and 
then somehow relate it back to the file it's related to isn't going to 
put it in /tmp/.  And /tmp really isn't where you want to store all that 
stuff anyway, or you'll wind up filling up whatever partition /tmp is 
on, which is usually smaller than the partition your home directory is on.

> Demonstration I saw showed it pegging the CPU at 100% for nearly 40 
> minutes because the rights were stamped on each object.  Come to think, 
> it wasn't the filesystem - it had to do with assigning rights in AD 
> itself, not to the filesystem.  It's been a few years.

I'm not saying you didn't see it. Only that I never did. :-)  They 
*have* changed how ACLs are stored on files between 2000 and XP (IIRC).

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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