[PATCH] One more -x to not traverse cyclic bind-mounts

Matt McCutchen matt at mattmccutchen.net
Thu Jan 13 11:49:15 MST 2011


On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 11:24 -0700, Jeff Hansen wrote:
> This patch allows one to repeat the '-x' option a third time to stop
> rsync from traversing potentially cyclic bind mounts that are on the
> same filesystem.

Your patch does not do anything about bind mounts, it simply excludes
subdirectories of the source arguments.  Try it and see.

-- 
Matt



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