bsdtar POLA change in 10.0?
Mark Felder
feld at FreeBSD.org
Thu Mar 6 13:15:09 UTC 2014
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014, at 7:12, Ronald Klop wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:00:22 +0100, Mark Felder <feld at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014, at 6:50, Marat N.Afanasyev wrote:
> >> I wonder why
> >>
> >> bsdtar --one-file-system
> >>
> >> suddenly started to skip archiving of mount-points? And no mention of
> >> such behaviour change either in UPDATING or errata :(
> >>
> >
> > --one-file-system
> > (c, r, and u modes) Do not cross mount points.
> >
> > Isn't that what it's supposed to do? Skip any mounted filesystems? Was
> > it broken before? Or do I simply not understand the behavior you're
> > seeing.
>
> The question is if the mountpoint (directory in the 'current' filesystem)
> itself should be tarred. After untarring you can than make the same
> mounts
> again, for example.
>
So you're saying that if I have a disk mounted at /mnt/disk and my tar
with --one-file-system includes /mnt, the empty directory /mnt/disk will
not be in the tarball?
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