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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 40da07dd2e341..a4ee0208c8a29 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. + |