bsdtar POLA change in 10.0?

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Mar 6 18:43:31 UTC 2014


On Mar 6, 2014, at 6:00 AM, 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.

Before it would archive the directory where the other filesystem was mounted, but nothing else.

Now it doesn’t archive that directory.

I believe this is a bug, since that directory (but nothing in it or under it) still belongs to this filesystem...

Warner




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