John R. Vanderpool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > that last patch seems to have worked
OK > > but now it is back to scanning all the > > directories in every file system once it sees that a certain level dir > > is not requested shouldn't it stop descending into the dir hierarchy? > > > > That's right, it should. > > why does it need to do that? What I said means that "Yes, it should stop descending into the dir hierarchy" :^) Are you sure it does not? I have run similar test on my box and as far as I can tell, no unrequested directories has been recursed into. To make sure we speak about the same thing, here's what happens: 1. At the beginning, tar scans the requested directory hierarchies. 2. When tar happens to descend into a mount point, it does not scan any sub- directories under it, *unless* this mount point has also been specified in the command line. Please verify if this is not so on your system. Regards, Sergey _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
