On Thursday 28 August 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT 
>net> 
wrote:
>> The tar folks at gnu do not consider that a bug, but as a part of the
>> security.
>
>To be fair, the tar developers did fix this -- in 1.21, IIRC.
>
Hrumph...  Bleeding edge, and currently bleeding users over the ssh thingy, 
Fedora is still stuck at 1.17.

>As to the original question, no, I don't think that there is any way
>to "pretend" that one host/disk is the same as another.  When we have
>a more expressive catalog, it might be interesting to have some kind
>of "redirect" that amrecover could follow when browsing the history of
>a DLE -- similar to Subversion's "copy-from".
>
>Dustin

Someone did do a script about a year ago when that bit me that could globally 
fix the database, but I've forgotten its name now.  And you still needed to 
be pretty savvy to use it.

Maybe I wasn't the only one chewing on their attitudes about that item?  IMO, 
either LANANA or tar had to give, having a device number changed just cuz you 
rebooted to a newer kernel was and is a PITA.

-- 
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