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4.7.1 Filter Examples

Here are a few examples of filters.

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To compress data blocks of regular files:

2.
To apply the Unix crypt(3)-based filter to all directories owned by user ``ezk'' (uid 2301) on the first file system:

3.
To expand shell environment variables that may be embedded in names of symbolic links:

4.
One may want to ignore errors returned by a caching file system, since data not in the cache can always be retrieved from the source. For example, if a file could not be written because the cache is full, that should not result in the vnode operation failing. To ignore out-of-space errors from the cache file system, one might use the ``ignore'' (null) filter:

5.
To log all attempts to read my directories by any non-system user other than the owner:



Erez Zadok
1999-12-07