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Re: [Bug-tar] minor error in "Format of the Incremental Snapshot Files"
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Nathan Stratton Treadway |
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Re: [Bug-tar] minor error in "Format of the Incremental Snapshot Files" node |
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Sun, 18 Sep 2011 21:13:21 -0400 |
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On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 16:04:57 -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> I recently noticed a small error in the "Format of the Incremental
> Snapshot Files" node of the GNU tar documentation (e.g.
> http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Snapshot-Files.html
> ).
>
> In that node, the description of the Format 0 "nfs" field says
>
> A single plus character (+), if this directory is located on an
> NFS-mounted partition, or a single space otherwise;"
>
> , but based on an old version 0 snapshot file I have lying around as
> well as the "read_incr_db_01" function from incremen.c, I think that if
> the file was not NFS mounted then there is no character at all in that
> field. (That is, on lines for non-NFS directories, the first character
> in the line is simply the first character of the device number field...)
Attached is a patch to the snapshot.texi source file that attempts to
clarify this (as well as give more precise information about which
versions of tar used each format).
Nathan
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