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Subject: Re: bin/25620: tar does not handle existing large minor numbers
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Synopsis: tar does not handle existing large minor numbers

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: phk
State-Changed-When: Wed Mar 28 09:44:37 PST 2001
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You are right, as it says: it doesn't.

The tar format is a semi fixed width field format, and the field
for device numbers were designed for 16 bit (8 major, 8 minor)
and can not absorb our 32 bit (8 major, 16+8 minor) numbers.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=25620

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