>From: Andy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > star -tv < /tmp/cdev.tar.bz2 >> > ... >> > 255 7000 crw-r--r-- 1 root/other Jan 5 22:06 2004 cdev >> > >> > AS you see, this is a tar archive that includes a character >> > special with major 255 and minor 7000.
>Postulate. Restoring of device entries from another architecture was >never guaranteed to provide meaningful results for following reasons: >- different platform allocate different amount of bits for major and >minor numbers, e.g. SVR3 specification reserves for 7 and 8 bits >respectively, SVR4 (e.g. Solaris and IRIX) - for 14/18, HP-UX - for >8/24, OSF - 12/20; >- restoring of devices from another platform can have undesirable effect >(imagine world writable /dev/null from another platform to coincide with >your system disk) and treated with special consideration or be avoided; Are you trying to open another unrelated thread or do you like to prove that you did not understand the current discusion? Nothing is wrong with calling: mknod cdev c 255 7000 on Linux-2.6 and for the same reason, it is completely legal to unpack the tar archive on Linux-2.6. How major()/minor() is handled is OS specific and the TAR archive does not contain any OS specifics. It does not make any sense to comment the rest of your text as it is completely unrelated to the problem. It seems that you just are unable or unwilling to admit that is is impossible to correctly use an star on Linux-2.6 if it has been compiled on Linux-2.4. Being able to use includes for me using all documented features and e.g. make backups and restores on the system. If you try to use an star compiled on 2.4 to make backups and restores on 2.6, then the device nodes may not be restored correctly, that's the problem! Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]