Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup follows symbolic links to other filesystems with --exclude-other-filesystems enabled

[Andrew Ferguson]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> rdiff-backup follows symbolic links across filesystems with the
> --exclude-other-filesystems option enabled.  I expected that this option
> would cause rdiff-backup to copy a symbolic link that pointed to another
> FS without following it.  However, rdiff-backup also follows such links.


Matt,

Can you provide an example to illustrate? I don't quite understand your
bug report.

rdiff-backup checks the st_dev field from the lstat(2) sys call, which
reports the device that the inode resides on.


Andrew

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