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

[Wayne Davison]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Jeff Hansen <jhansen at cardaccess-inc.com>wrote:

> I hate to beat an (apparently) dead horse, but I've tested this patch on
> several systems and I would really appreciate it if this patch (or some
> variation of it) went into mainline.
>

You patch just prevents recursing into subdirectories of the directories
mentioned as command-line args, which can be accomplished several different
ways, including an exclude:

rsync -aiv --exclude='/*/*/*' src1 src2 /dest/

as well as using -d with --no-r as long as the source dirs have a trailing
slash.  For instance:

rsync -aivd --no-r src/ /dest/src/

or a multiple source dir example of -d --no-r combined with -R:

rsync -aivdR --no-r src1/ src2/ /path/./something/deeper/ /dest/

See also --files-from (which is essentially the same as the -d --no-R
examples, with trailing slashes needed on the dirs mentioned in the input
file that should include their contents).

I can think of no nice, portable way to discover bind mounts, so I'll leave
it up to the user to tell rsync which dirs to elide.

..wayne..
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