From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752404AbXDJHvf (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:51:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752667AbXDJHvf (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:51:35 -0400 Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.46]:57970 "EHLO vms046pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752404AbXDJHve (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:51:34 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:51:33 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: I give up In-reply-to: <20070410071217.GA28899@aepfle.de> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Olaf Hering , Dave Dillow , Dave Jones , Jan Engelhardt , "H. Peter Anvin" , Jeff Garzik Message-id: <200704100351.33699.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Organization: Organization? very little MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200704091007.58535.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <1176169246.3193.2.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> <20070410071217.GA28899@aepfle.de> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars. -- Kirk, "The Gamesters of Triskelion", stardate 3259.2