diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e3ba39d2..f453c1ae 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -7,6 +7,15 @@ Please send GNU tar bug reports to version 1.14.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, +* When restoring incremental dumps, --one-file-system option +prevents directory hierarchies residing on different devices +from being purged. + +With the previous versions of tar it was dangerous to create +incremental dumps with --one-file-system option, since they +would recursively remove mount points when restoring from the +back up. This change fixes the bug. + * Renamed --strip-path to --strip-components for consistency with the GNU convention.