On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 5:59 AM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> 
wrote:
> I just went back through my emails from amanda for the last several days, and
> its appears that the device mapper has struck again by using volatile
> numbers.   With 2.6.28-rc2, all the disks are now at a major device number of
> 8, where they used to be 254.

Recall from previous discussions that this has nothing to do with the
kernel version, but is rather a conflict between the Linux kernel's
device-number policy and the assumptions older versions of GNU Tar
make.

> We need, as part of the footer where it says "Brought to you by version", the
> uname -r output also, so we can more easily correlate amanda's upset tummy
> with which kernel was running during the backup.
>
> Could this be added?

Sounds like a great project.  Patches welcome!

Dustin

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