bsdtar POLA change in 10.0?

[Jan Mikkelsen]

> On 7 Mar 2014, at 20:42, Ronald Klop <ronald-lists at klop.ws> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 19:43:28 +0100, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Mar 6, 2014, at 6:00 AM, Mark Felder <feld at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014, at 6:50, Marat N.Afanasyev wrote:
>>>> I wonder why
>>>> 
>>>> bsdtar --one-file-system
>>>> 
>>>> suddenly started to skip archiving of mount-points? And no mention of
>>>> such behaviour change either in UPDATING or errata :(
>>>> 
>>> 
>>>    --one-file-system
>>>            (c, r, and u modes) Do not cross mount points.
>>> 
>>> Isn't that what it's supposed to do? Skip any mounted filesystems? Was
>>> it broken before? Or do I simply not understand the behavior you're
>>> seeing.
>> 
>> Before it would archive the directory where the other filesystem was mounted, but nothing else.
>> 
>> Now it doesn’t archive that directory.
>> 
>> I believe this is a bug, since that directory (but nothing in it or under it) still belongs to this filesystem...
>> 
>> Warner
> 
> I cc'ed libarchive-discuss at googlegroups.com for more exposure to the issue.
> 

Reviving an old discussion — this just caused my build process for 10.1 to create root filesystems without /dev, which is obviously constraining.

Using the --one-file-system option should should preserve mount point directories. Will this be fixed?

Jan.