Re: [Dump-devel] Feature Creature -- Exclusion List

[PeterKorman <pk...@ei...>]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:09:44AM +0100, Stelian Pop wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:48:06PM -0500, PeterKorman wrote:
> 
> > So if you have 2 60G drives, and the first one
> > is 15% transient junk, then you can be pretty
> > safe doing compressed dumps to the second drive.
> > Big exclusion lists become pretty important because
> > there's LOTZ of small transient files. A fast
> > search is especially important if you have say
> > 500000 files in a L0 dump, of which you 
> > want to exclude 170000.
> 
> But very often (if not always) all this junk is located in 
> only a few directories (~/.netscape/cache for example, etc).
> 
> And you can use chattr to set the nodump attribute on these
> directories, and the attribute will be automatically
> inherited by all the files below in the hierarchy.

Doh! I didn't know about this.

> > Does anyone think the maintainer would be
> > interested in a patch like the one I describe?
> 
> I'm not sure, I still think it would be overkill.

Even so, I had great fun making it work.

> However, if you come with a nice, little implementation of this
> I might still apply it.

Cool.

> > If so, where would the person who generates
> > the patch send it?
> 
> Here, or use the Sourceforge patch system or you can even send it
> directly to me.

Easiest to send it here. I've attached it to this message.

> 
> > How much time might pass between submission
> > of the patch and it's inclusion in the 
> > distribution assuming the patch is worth
> > a damn? Thanks.
> 
> Well, if I like the patch it might get applied in the CVS instantly.
> It will then be in the next release (releases are scheduled depending
> on what features/bugs get added/fixed, but I try to get a new version
> out every 2 months or so).

Thanks for the feedback.

Cheers,

JPK