On Fri, November 18, 2011 10:34 am, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I use Amanda to make nightly backups of a bunch of servers using GNU tar. > However, gtar doesn't seem to respect its --one-file-system flag with > /proc. Amanda runs a variation of this command: > > # /usr/local/bin/gtar --create --file - --directory / > --one-file-system --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals . > /dev/null > /usr/local/bin/gtar: ./proc: file changed as we read it > > Before I file a bug report, can anyone think of a legitimate reason why > gtar would be touching /proc at all?
Just a guess, really but: /proc is a file on /. /proc/* are files on /proc. The former is still on the root filesystem (if only as a directory stub to be used as a mountpoint), so reading it isn't leaving that filesystem. Reading anything *in* it would be. Just a thought. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
