Windows/Samba maps this to the user execute bit on the linux/Unix filesystems.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch05_03.html
Syd
On Monday 09 December 2002 22:39, patrick grantham wrote:
> If a win client runs xcopy with the "/m" (move) an apparent file attribute
> is changed from 1 to zero. This has nothing to do file size. True, it may
> be is a DOS-ism and the term may be sifferent in Linux. There must some
> equivalent as folders listing on the M$ box show this file attribute (aka
> the archive attribute) as either one or off, when viewing files in a folder
> via a samba conenction. In this situation, files are being copied from a
> Linux box running samba by a Windows box.
>
> On Monday 09 December 2002 10:15 pm, you wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:00:33PM -0500, patrick grantham wrote:
> > > How do I turn off the archive bit in a folder and subfolders in linux
> > > (i.e 50K files in 100 folders and subfolders
> >
> > Am I the only one who doesn't understand this? What's being archived?
> > What application is doing it? Are you trying to stall the creation of
> > files, or lower their size? There is no "archive bit" in Linux
> > filesystems. That's a DOS-ism. More data please.
> >
> > Paul
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