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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0704101809440.21664@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:14:29 +0200 (MEST)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>,
Dave Dillow <dave@...dillows.org>,
Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Subject: Re: I give up
On Apr 10 2007 03:51, Gene Heskett wrote:
>On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Olaf Hering wrote:
>>On Mon, Apr 09, Dave Dillow wrote:
>>> It's not /dev he's backing up -- its /home, /usr, and others. GNU tar
>>> saves the device and inode numbers from the {,l}stat() call on each
>>> file and decides it is a new file if either number changes from run to
>>> run.
>>
>>So fix tar to not do silly things.
>>Kernel major:minor numbers are not stable.
>
>YOU Tell that to the tar/star people, they are flabbergasted that its not
>stable. It apparently is for every other OS tar can be run on.
FreeBSD also seems to be quite "dynamic".
/dev/da0 is (0,92) for the 'fixit shell' -- how about you?
Jan
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