Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:19:44 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: I give up |
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Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Olaf Hering wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 09, Dave Dillow wrote: >>> It's not /dev he's backing up -- its /home, /usr, and others. GNU tar >>> saves the device and inode numbers from the {,l}stat() call on each >>> file and decides it is a new file if either number changes from run to >>> run. >> So fix tar to not do silly things. >> Kernel major:minor numbers are not stable. > > YOU Tell that to the tar/star people, they are flabbergasted that its not > stable. It apparently is for every other OS tar can be run on.
It's just the new world that we live in.
I don't see us ever going back to 100% static major/minors.
Though as a point of history, Linux has /always/ supported dynamic major/minor numbers, even back in 0.99 days. We avoided the problem then because the dynamic major/minors were only used by drivers that had not yet had static numbers assigned, or their author chose to avoid LANANA for some other reason.
Jeff
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