Re: I give up

[John Anthony Kazos Jr.]

> > I violently agree on that point, but the limited conversations I've had with
> > the tar maintainer so far indicates that AFAHIC, its linux that's broken.  A
> > new device number is a new disk and must be treated as such.
> 
> Sumbit a patch adding an option to ignore the device number, and slap him
> around a bit with a large trout ;)

I think that's especially true. If a user begins with a single full disk 
for their entire filesystem, uses tar to backup, and then later adds a 
second disk, copies everything from /usr and /home onto partitions there 
(making sure to preserve all interesting bits like ctime/mtime), and 
mounts them over the original directories, tar should not decide that 
every file in /usr and /home was deleted and recreated.
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