Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 14:24:16 +1000 (EST) From: Ada T Lim <ada@not-enough.bandwidth.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: large minor numbers Message-ID: <199708070424.OAA00318@polya.blah.org>
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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'. Ada
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