Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 13:35:26 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: ada@not-enough.bandwidth.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: large minor numbers Message-ID: <199708072035.NAA22951@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199708070812.RAA24898@freebie.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Aug 7, 97 05:42:38 pm
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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'. > > 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. The real "fix" is to go to devfs; with devfs, it simply makes no sense to backup (or restore) device nodes, period. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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