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| author | phk <phk@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-03-28 19:31:59 +0000 |
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| committer | phk <phk@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-03-28 19:31:59 +0000 |
| commit | 675a95706dcc8ea66ec6fd280a58d7b00d90c984 (patch) | |
| tree | 53fbdf23b365b5a42b3e81662573e225c6794068 /gnu | |
| parent | a4de9511b56865c6060acf4f64008b5bad1032dc (diff) | |
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Add to BUGS section why tar can't dump large minors
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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/usr.bin/tar/tar.1 | 5 |
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diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/tar/tar.1 b/gnu/usr.bin/tar/tar.1 index 40da07d..a4ee020 100644 --- a/gnu/usr.bin/tar/tar.1 +++ b/gnu/usr.bin/tar/tar.1 @@ -565,3 +565,8 @@ command should work to join an arbitrary number of archives together, but it does not; attempting to do so leaves the end-of-archive blocks in place for the second and subsequent archives. +.Pp +The tar file format is a semi fixed width field format, and the field +for device numbers were designed for 16 bit (8 major, 8 minor) +and can not absorb our 32 bit (8 major, 16+8 minor) numbers. + |
