On 01/19/2011 12:52 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote:
On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 12:40 -0700, Jeff Hansen wrote:
The way rsync determines if the directory is a mount point looks very
portable to me (with the FLAG_TOP_DIR bit), and with this patch, it
has worked on every Linux system I've tried so far (not su
On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 12:40 -0700, Jeff Hansen wrote:
> The way rsync determines if the directory is a mount point looks very
> portable to me (with the FLAG_TOP_DIR bit), and with this patch, it
> has worked on every Linux system I've tried so far (not sure if
> FLAG_TOP_DIR works on BSDs, but I'm
On 01/18/2011 05:45 PM, Wayne Davison wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Jeff Hansen
mailto:jhan...@cardaccess-inc.com>> wrote:
I hate to beat an (apparently) dead horse, but I've tested this
patch on several systems and I would really appreciate it if this
patch (or some vari
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Jeff Hansen wrote:
> I hate to beat an (apparently) dead horse, but I've tested this patch on
> several systems and I would really appreciate it if this patch (or some
> variation of it) went into mainline.
>
You patch just prevents recursing into subdirectories
On 01/13/2011 06:14 PM, Wayne Davison wrote:
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Jeff Hansen
mailto:jhan...@cardaccess-inc.com>> wrote:
This patch allows one to repeat the '-x' option a third time to
stop rsync from traversing potentially cyclic bind mounts that are
on the same filesy
On 01/13/2011 06:14 PM, Wayne Davison wrote:
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Jeff Hansen
mailto:jhan...@cardaccess-inc.com>> wrote:
This patch allows one to repeat the '-x' option a third time to
stop rsync from traversing potentially cyclic bind mounts that are
on the same filesy
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Jeff Hansen wrote:
> This patch allows one to repeat the '-x' option a third time to stop rsync
> from traversing potentially cyclic bind mounts that are on the same
> filesystem.
>
See the support/mnt-excl script for one way exclude all mounts (including
bind m
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 11:24 -0700, Jeff Hansen wrote:
> This patch allows one to repeat the '-x' option a third time to stop
> rsync from traversing potentially cyclic bind mounts that are on the
> same filesystem.
Your patch does not do anything about bind mounts, it simply excludes
subdirectorie
This patch allows one to repeat the '-x' option a third time to stop
rsync from traversing potentially cyclic bind mounts that are on the
same filesystem.
For example, the following scenario would cyclically traverse the bind
mounts until the OS (Linux in this case) hits a maximum traversal co
