bsdtar POLA change in 10.0?

[Marat N.Afanasyev]

Mark Felder wrote:
>
>
> 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?

Yes, your /mnt/disk will not be in archive, while older version 
certainly pick this directory

-- 
SY, Marat

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