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From: Ada T Lim <ada@not-enough.bandwidth.org>
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Subject: large minor numbers
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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