On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 21:27 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 06:22:10PM -0400, Dave Dillow wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 23:35 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > On Apr 9 2007 15:38, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >On Monday 09 April 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > >>Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > >>> dm is on 254 for me.. in opensuse with a 2.6.20 that is. I wonder why > > > >>> it even moves around. However, even then, those who use udev and > > > >>> device names rather than (major,minor) tuples should not have any > > > >>> problem. > > > >> > > > >>It moves around because someone at some point thought it was a great > > > >>idea to assign dynamic majors to core functionality. > > > >> > > > >What were they smoking, I want some of that! > > > > > > Do you actually use udev? > > > > udev doesn't help the problem he is having (and he is using it, since he > > is using Fedora). > > However, it also doesn't explain what the point is of backing up /dev > when it's dynamically created.
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. You are correct about /dev -- who'd back it up if it is dynamically created? But that is also not the problem Gene is having. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/