linux-kernel - Re: I give up

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Message-ID: <20070410071217.GA28899@aepfle.de>
Date:	Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:12:17 +0200
From:	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
To:	Dave Dillow <dave@...dillows.org>
Cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Subject: Re: I give up

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.
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