Michael White <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Joerg & Nathan, > > First thanks again to both of you for taking the time to try and explain this > to me I very much do appreciate it. > > I believe I have found a way to get the stat info you requested. I found a > perl one liner that appears to display the stat data. > > perl -e 'print ((stat($ARGV[0]))[0]," \n");' <file> > ^ and I believe this > is the offset to the stat fields (please correct me if I'm wrong) > I incremented > this value (0 - 18) to get the below output > though I don't > know why some fields are blank. > > One of you talked about signed values. And that does appear to be the case. > See my output below using the above perl command. The filesystem created as > a HPUX LVM 2.2 does show a sign whereas the 1.0 version created filesytem > does not. > So that evidently and maybe other items are causing GNU tar incremental to > fail. > > So now the big question. What do I need to do to request a fix so GNU tar > incremental will work for HPUX? I would dearly love to use GNU tar > incrementals on this platform. > > cghbck a 2.2 vg > > -2147475455 dev_t st_dev ID of device containing file
As you see, st_dev is signed and it seems that gtar does not deal with this fact in a symmetrical way for reading/writing the temporary file. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
