From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 7 01:13:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA26689 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 01:13:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA26682 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 01:13:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by nico.telstra.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id SAA25966; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 18:12:40 +1000 From: Greg Lehey Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id RAA24898; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 17:42:39 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199708070812.RAA24898@freebie.lemis.com> Subject: Re: large minor numbers In-Reply-To: <199708070424.OAA00318@polya.blah.org> from Ada T Lim at "Aug 7, 97 02:24:16 pm" To: ada@not-enough.bandwidth.org (Ada T Lim) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 17:42:38 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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