Followup to: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10006011649160.17448-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
By author: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
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> On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Pavel Machek wrote:
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> > That will surely confuse hell out of the backup utility. It is
> > probably going to confuse autoclean.
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> And you allow your backups freely span the filesystem boundaries? I've
> learnt not to do it _really_ hard way. Even harder was the autocleaner -
> ever went "uh, /mnt is already busy, let's mount it for an hour under
> /tmp/foo... Oh, FSCK! Let's hope these tapes are alive and there goes
> my fscking weekend..."?
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> The point being: you should protect yourself against your own fsckups - no
> user will ever come anywhere near the crap you can inflict upon yourself
> at 4:55pm on Friday.
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But seriously, though... think of:
mount -t bind /home/user /home/user/again
Looking at dev_t won't help you, so your backup will recurse indefinitely.
-hpa
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