From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 6 10:51:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 039C737B479; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 10:51:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 13srMZ-0004mM-00; Mon, 06 Nov 2000 18:51:23 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eA6Hskc01320; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 18:54:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 18:54:46 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Matthew Jacob Cc: "John W. De Boskey" , Current List Subject: Re: tar : needs some attention? Message-ID: <20001106185446.I597@freebie.demon.nl> References: <20001106080532.A72115@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from mjacob@feral.com on Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:09:53AM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:09:53AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, John W. De Boskey wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Each night I run a 'make release' and then tar it off to > > a public storage area... > > > > For some time now, tar has been complaining... > > > > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t32: minor number too large; not dumped > > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t33: minor number too large; not dumped > > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t34: minor number too large; not dumped > > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t35: minor number too large; not dumped > > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t36: minor number too large; not dumped > > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t37: minor number too large; not dumped > > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t38: minor number too large; not dumped > > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t39: minor number too large; not dumped > > > > Is this the expected behaviour, or is it worth digging into > > tar and making some fixes? > > Nope. Expected behaviour for interoperability with other unix systems. FWIW I think I also have seen this on Tru64 (at least once) -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands wilko@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message