Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 17:42:38 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: ada@not-enough.bandwidth.org (Ada T Lim) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: large minor numbers Message-ID: <199708070812.RAA24898@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199708070424.OAA00318@polya.blah.org> from Ada T Lim at "Aug 7, 97 02:24:16 pm"
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Ada T Lim writes: > On the topic of minor numbers for certain devices, it was mentioned that > there was no 8-bit limit upon these. Has it occurred to anyone to fix > tar to understand these? If I do a tar of /dev, it'll give me a bunch of > errors saying 'minor number too large'. The trouble is, tar is a portable format, and it's one of its greatest advantages. If you "fix" it for large minor numbers, you'll break it for exchange to anything else. I think pax might understand this sort of thing. That would be the program to "fix", anyway, since it supports multiple formats anyway. Greg
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