Re: [Dump-users] Re: [Dump-announce] Dump/restore 0.4b39 released.

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 12:32:27AM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> --On Saturday, January 22, 2005 8:46 AM +0100 Stelian Pop 
> <st...@po...> wrote:
> 
> >The reason you didn't get this with older versions of restore is
> >because older versions of restore didn't even bother to compare
> >directories *at all*. Now that restore does, we have this special
> >case of mountpoints, and I'm not sure what's the best solution here.
> 
> Can you tell whether it's a mount point? If so, then just reporting that is 
> sufficient, given the way everything works. I just didn't recognize those 
> as mount points without having them pointed out, since I don't normally pay 
> attention to those particular ones.

Well, dump does contain that logic, but in its own code, not in the
common part, so it's not usable directly by restore. I'll see if it's
possible to dig that code out and reuse it.

Stelian.
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