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

[Andrew Ferguson]

Please ignore -- this is what I get for reading months old email. :)

Andrew

Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> 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
>