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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:12:17 +0200
From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Dave Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
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Subject: Re: I give up
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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.