Mac – Will Time Machine backup portions of the file system that come from mounted drives

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I have used the mount command to mount non-primary drive storage in to my the file system on my primary hard drive. So the path /remote-mounts/some-directory actually places me on a USB-attached drive when I change in to it.

Will Time Machine traverse in to the mounted directories and back them up or does it stop at mount points? Is it smart enough to tell that these mounts aren't actually on my primary drive?

Edit: Here's my personal exclusion list with a USB drive mounted. As you can see STUFF is excluded automatically and I can't prevent that. It's un-selectable in the list.

Personal exclusion list with a USB drive mounted

Best Answer

It's most likely your filesystem is just one that fseventsd is ignoring due to it not being HFS+

Even with a proper Mac filesystem, you could have unintentionally told the system to secure and ignore this volume by having an obscurely documented empty file called no_log in /path/to/your/fs/.fseventsd/no_log.