Re: [Bug-tar] New install of 1.27, is refusing to backup certain subtrees

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 02 March 2014 14:30:10 Paul Eggert did opine:

> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > The 4 items are NOT links to a different filesystem, and are just
> > normal subdirs at least as far as an ls -laR listing is reporting.
> 
> The message doesn't say that the items are links; it says they are on
> different filesystems.  These are not the same things.  'ls -laR' won't
> tell you whether filesystem boundaries are being crossed; you need
> something like 'stat'.

Ok, to use /lib and scan for init I get this:
Inodes: Total: 60678144   Free: 58546374
  File: "i686"
    ID: 15461c55fea5cabf Namelen: 255     Type: ext2/ext3
Block size: 4096       Fundamental block size: 4096
Blocks: Total: 238846913  Free: 171378777  Available: 159240281
Inodes: Total: 60678144   Free: 58546374
  File: "init"
    ID: 15461c55fea5cabf Namelen: 255     Type: ext2/ext3
Block size: 4096       Fundamental block size: 4096
Blocks: Total: 238846913  Free: 171378777  Available: 159240281

Then getting more specific:

address@hidden:/lib# stat -f init/
  File: "init/"
    ID: 15461c55fea5cabf Namelen: 255     Type: ext2/ext3
Block size: 4096       Fundamental block size: 4096
Blocks: Total: 238846913  Free: 171378748  Available: 159240252
Inodes: Total: 60678144   Free: 58546373

address@hidden:/lib# stat -f init/rw
  File: "init/rw"
    ID: 0        Namelen: 255     Type: tmpfs
Block size: 4096       Fundamental block size: 4096
Blocks: Total: 1039165    Free: 1039165    Available: 1039165
Inodes: Total: 209816     Free: 209813

tmpfs, smack in the middle of an ext2-ext3 and journaled file system?

How the heck do they pull that off?  And better yet, is it fixable?

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene
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