From 1753ce6722c4acbc6afb049672da6ca4c28207b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stelian Pop Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 13:44:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Explain some caveats with dump -m in the man page. --- dump/dump.8.in | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/dump/dump.8.in b/dump/dump.8.in index a6bf3f0..555b7ac 100644 --- a/dump/dump.8.in +++ b/dump/dump.8.in @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $Id: dump.8.in,v 1.57 2004/07/13 08:17:32 stelian Exp $ +.\" $Id: dump.8.in,v 1.58 2005/06/01 13:44:35 stelian Exp $ .\" .TH DUMP 8 "version __VERSION__ of __DATE__" BSD "System management commands" .SH NAME @@ -283,6 +283,12 @@ Inodes which are either directories or have been modified since the last dump are saved in a regular way. Uses of this flag must be consistent, meaning that either every dump in an incremental dump set have the flag, or no one has it. .IP +If you use this option, be aware that many programs that unpack +files from archives (e.g. tar, rpm, unzip, dpkg) may set files' +mtimes to dates in the past. Files installed in this way may not be +dumped correctly using "dump -m" if the modified mtime is earlier +than the previous level dump. +.IP Tapes written using such 'metadata only' inodes will not be compatible with the BSD tape format or older versions of .B restore. -- 2.39.5