Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:27:02 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shouldn't GNU tar be ignoring /proc with --one-file-system? Message-ID: <4EC69566.5060501@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <CAHu1Y728ykP7Bs1Z7_G2x1Rgd8EF_vWku0wrGaGv3J9i8nn67A@mail.gmail.com> References: <99414592-7FC7-4F24-8FEA-6F2F7B03551A@strauser.com> <6de19086dd1301d00679b0e51ca10a5b.squirrel@www.magehandbook.com> <CAHu1Y728ykP7Bs1Z7_G2x1Rgd8EF_vWku0wrGaGv3J9i8nn67A@mail.gmail.com>
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On 18/11/2011 17:18, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> wrote:
>=20
>> > /proc is a file on /. /proc/* are files on /proc. The former is st=
ill 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.
> And a good one. Yes, that's it. It isn't crossing the mount point,
> but the mount point is part of the root filesystem.
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.
Cheers,
Matthew
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