[illumos-Developer] "od" i386 binary for benchmark

[Joerg Schilling]

Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote:

> Last item, don't use star as a 64-bit binary. I have run into problems
> when I create backup archives from the root level of a filesystem and then
> tried to extract later with a 32-bit star. This is due to device major and
> minor numbers near as I can tell.

There is a plan to add support to work around the fact that Solaris returns 
different device numbers to 32 bit and 64 bit applications. To be able to do 
this, I need to enhance my extended TAR headers to mention from which kernel
interface variant they have been retrieved.

Jörg

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