Re: I give up

[Olaf Hering]

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.
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