From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 6 8: 9:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C66137B479; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 08:09:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeppo.feral.com (IDENT:mjacob@zeppo [192.67.166.71]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA32058; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 08:09:53 -0800 Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 08:09:53 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "John W. De Boskey" Cc: Current List Subject: Re: tar : needs some attention? In-Reply-To: <20001106080532.A72115@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, John W. De Boskey wrote: > Hi, > > Each night I run a 'make release' and then tar it off to > a public storage area... > > For some time now, tar has been complaining... > > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t32: minor number too large; not dumped > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t33: minor number too large; not dumped > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t34: minor number too large; not dumped > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t35: minor number too large; not dumped > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t36: minor number too large; not dumped > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t37: minor number too large; not dumped > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t38: minor number too large; not dumped > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t39: minor number too large; not dumped > > Is this the expected behaviour, or is it worth digging into > tar and making some fixes? Nope. Expected behaviour for interoperability with other unix systems. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message