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List:       freebsd-fs
Subject:    Re: chflags "archived" flag?
From:       Andy Farkas <andyf () speednet ! com ! au>
Date:       2003-04-17 10:27:00
Message-ID: 20030417194056.B795-100000 () hewey ! af ! speednet ! com ! au
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[cc'd to -fs because you might have more clue..]

>
> chflags(1) and chflags(2) and chflags(3) all mention SF_ARCHIVED as a flag
> that the superuser can set on a file or directory.
>
> My question is simple: what's this flag do?  Does it have any effect?
>

Short answer: nothing. no.

Its only there to support msdos(5) type file systems.

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        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
 http://www.speednet.com.au/




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