Re: [Bug-tar] major problem with --listed-incremental silently failing

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

John R. Vanderpool <address@hidden> 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