On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >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? > I don't have such a beast here. Whats that supposed to do? > >Jan
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