On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:09:53AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, John W. De Boskey wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Each night I run a 'make release' and then tar it off to
> > a public storage area...
> >
> > For some time now, tar has been complaining...
> >
> > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t32: minor number too large; not dumped
> > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t33: minor number too large; not dumped
> > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t34: minor number too large; not dumped
> > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t35: minor number too large; not dumped
> > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t36: minor number too large; not dumped
> > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t37: minor number too large; not dumped
> > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t38: minor number too large; not dumped
> > tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t39: minor number too large; not dumped
> >
> > Is this the expected behaviour, or is it worth digging into
> > tar and making some fixes?
>
> Nope. Expected behaviour for interoperability with other unix systems.
FWIW I think I also have seen this on Tru64 (at least once)
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