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 --fi
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Daniel Staal wrote:
> /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.
>
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Nov 18 09:36:09 2011
> From: Kirk Strauser
> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:34:18 -0600
> To: FreeBSD Questions ML
> Subject: Shouldn't GNU tar be ignoring /proc with --one-file-system?
>
> I use Amanda to make nightly backups of a bunch of servers using
On 18/11/2011 17:18, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Daniel Staal wrote:
>
>> > /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
On Nov 18, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
> See the output of 'mount(8)' for the names of all the mounted filesystems on
> your machine.
$ mount | grep proc
procfs on /proc (procfs, local)
>
> *NOTE*WELL* that '/proc' is *not* a separate filesystem. It is merely a
> _directory_ with
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Matthew Seaman
wrote:
> I find it quite astonishing that /proc would deliberately behave
> differently to *every other* filesystem available. The mountpoint
> should belong to the filesystem mounted on it.
I have an idea what you mean by "belong to" in this case
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Nov 18, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
See the output of 'mount(8)' for the names of all the mounted filesystems on
your machine.
$ mount | grep proc
procfs on /proc (procfs, local)
*NOTE*WELL* that '/proc' is *not* a separate filesy
Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Nov 18, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
>
> > See the output of 'mount(8)' for the names of all the mounted
> > filesystems on your machine.
>
> $ mount | grep proc
> procfs on /proc (procfs, local)
>
> > *NOTE*WELL* that '/proc' is *not* a separate filesystem.
> -Original Message-
> From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Staal
> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 18:00
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Shouldn't GNU tar be ignorin
