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

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

John R. Vanderpool <address@hidden> wrote:

> this does not work using tar 1.14 with RHEL4, only the parent dir gets
> backed up for /ftp/data/2 and it just silently does not backup any of
> the other files on that fs:
> 
> tar -c -f /dev/dlt35 -b 256 -v --one-file-system
> --listed-incremental=/var/tmp/bck.tmp.incremental --ignore-failed-read
> --totals ./ /home /usr/local /ftp /vol1 /ftp/data/2 

The problem is that, up to an including version 1.15.1, the operation 
of --one-file-system depended on the device number of the current
working directory, so that all subdirectories with the differring device
number were omitted. Obviously this behavior is wrong. It will be fixed
in the next release. 

Thank you for reporting.

Regards,
Sergey