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 the tar people, they are flabbergasted that linux is apparently
the only unstable OS that tar can be run on.
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