Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:32:14 -0600 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shouldn't GNU tar be ignoring /proc with --one-file-system? Message-ID: <92484812-3407-4A4B-B1BB-E0B5F3EDD06C@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <201111181727.pAIHR9XZ057564@mail.r-bonomi.com> References: <201111181727.pAIHR9XZ057564@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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On Nov 18, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > See the output of 'mount(8)' for the names of all the mounted = filesystems on > your machine. =20 $ mount | grep proc procfs on /proc (procfs, local) >=20 > *NOTE*WELL* that '/proc' is *not* a separate filesystem. It is merely = a > _directory_ with a bunch of 'special' files in it. I'm confused here. In what way isn't /proc a separate filesystem? It's = even called "procfs".
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