On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 01:43:32 -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > When I back up these systems with GNU tar using --one-file-system, I get > the following confusing messages: > ====== > # tar --create --one-file-system --warning=no-file-ignored --verbose --file > t.tar /var/lib 1>/dev/null > tar: Removing leading `/' from member names > tar: /var/lib/lxcfs/: file is on a different filesystem; not dumped > tar: /var/lib/lxcfs: file changed as we read it > ====== > > > Obviously this particular file system is an extreme case, but seeing the > above output at all made me wonder whether it would just generally make > sense for tar to avoid performing the "file changed as we read it" check > for directories that it has just skipped due to the one-file-system > check?
(Bumping this thread:) Does anyone know of a reason that tar needs to perform the file-changed check on directories that it has skipped due to --one-file-system...? Thanks. Nathan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Stratton Treadway - natha...@ontko.com - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239