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 -- - 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/