Re: I give up

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Apr 10 2007 23:54, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>
>>FreeBSD also seems to be quite "dynamic".
>>/dev/da0 is (0,92) for the 'fixit shell' -- how about you?
>>
>I don't have such a beast here.  Whats that supposed to do?

Well I was just pointing out that Linux is not the only one to have device
numbers (for promiment block-backed storage) that can move across reboots.


Jan
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