Re: [Bug-tar] incremental of nfs directory do full every times.

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau
<address@hidden> wrote:
>  Attached patch fix a bug because DIR_IS_NFS return 2 if it is NFS.

Sergey, what do you think about this patch?  There are a number of
folks using Amanda with NetApp devices who are completely stymied by
this bug.

>  Instead of trying to detect if the device should be used, why not add an
>  argument:
>   --no-check-device
>
>  I'm willing to do the patch if you will accept it?

This option would be extremely useful for Amanda, too.  We have lots
of users who are backing up removable storage and so on: places where
device numbers change often.  I understand your contention that this
should be fixed in the kernel, but until such time as that happens, a
--no-check-device option would be a very effective and non-disruptive
workaround.

Dustin

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