Re: Automatic `nodump' flag?

The dump program runs on the raw disk partition dumping sequentially
by inode number. So, it has no idea of the file-tree hierarchy. Thus
any propagation of the "nodump" flag would have to be done by the

Yes, dump DO descend to check for nodump flags - while doing backup for raw filesystem. there is enough to set nodump flag to directory, and no files in it will be backed up
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