From chu@h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi Thu Mar 8 17:49:41 2001 Return-Path: Received: from h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi (h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi [193.166.84.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69D3C37B71C for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:49:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chu@h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi) Received: (from chu@localhost) by h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f291mNI01366; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 03:48:23 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from chu) Message-Id: <200103090148.f291mNI01366@h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 03:48:23 +0200 (EET) From: Vladimir Tchoukharev Reply-To: chu@h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: tar does not handle existing large minor numbers X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 >Number: 25620 >Category: bin >Synopsis: tar does not handle existing large minor numbers >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Mar 08 17:50:01 PST 2001 >Closed-Date: Wed Mar 28 09:44:37 PST 2001 >Last-Modified: Wed Mar 28 09:45:51 PST 2001 >Originator: Vladimir Tchoukharev >Release: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386 >Organization: >Environment: # uname -a FreeBSD h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Fri Mar 9 01:39:06 EET 2001 root @:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/H33 i386 >Description: While making a copy of root fs by means of tar, I received: tar: dev/sa0.ctl: minor number too large; not dumped >How-To-Repeat: # ls -l /dev/sa0.ctl crw-rw---- 2 root wheel 14, 0x20000000 8 ΖΕΧ 23:31 /dev/sa0.ctl # tar -cf - -C /dev/ . > /dev/null tar: sa0.ctl: minor number too large; not dumped >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: phk State-Changed-When: Wed Mar 28 09:44:37 PST 2001 State-Changed-Why: You are right, as it says: it doesn't. The tar 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. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=25620 >Unformatted: