docs/80535: Contrary to handbook, filesystem snapshots do not have the schg flag.

Matteo Riondato rionda at gufi.org
Wed Jun 8 20:10:12 UTC 2005


The following reply was made to PR docs/80535; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matteo Riondato <rionda at gufi.org>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, bdluevel at heitec.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: docs/80535: Contrary to handbook, filesystem snapshots do not have the schg flag.
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 22:08:44 +0200

 Patch follows:
 --- chapter.sgml.old    Wed May 25 14:24:40 2005
 +++ chapter.sgml        Wed Jun  8 21:55:24 2005
 @@ -3141,13 +3141,6 @@
  	however all the used space may not be acquired because another snapshot will
 	possibly claim some of the released blocks.</para>
 
 -      <para>During initial creation, the <option>schg</option> flag (see the &man.chflags.1; manual page)
 -	is set to ensure that even <username>root</username> cannot write to the snapshot.
 -	The &man.unlink.1; command makes an exception for snapshot files
 -	since it allows them to be removed
 - 	with the <option>schg</option> flag set, so it is not necessary to
 -	clear the <option>schg</option> flag before removing a snapshot file.</para>
 -
        <para>Snapshots are created with the &man.mount.8; command.  To place
 	a snapshot of <filename>/var</filename> in the file
 	<filename>/var/snapshot/snap</filename> use the following
 
 
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