[SMB3 POSIX] POSIX client creates a file, set the ARCHIVE bit or not

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Oct 30 18:44:17 UTC 2023


On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 02:25:05PM -0400, Tom Talpey via samba-technical wrote:
>On 10/30/2023 2:13 PM, Ralph Boehme wrote:
>>On 10/30/23 18:52, Jeremy Allison wrote:
>>>Yep, sounds good to me !
>>
>>ok. Noticed we need the tweak at a slightly different place, but 
>>anyway, working on it while at it.
>>
>
>Is this really worth it? It seems odd to set a Windows-only attribute
>from a Posix system, just because it's there. I guess it's mostly
>harmless though.

Lots of backup utils use the ARCHIVE bit to tell them
what to back up.



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