Re: [Bug-tar] Tar vs later linux kernels

[Paul Eggert]

Gene Heskett <address@hidden> writes:

> It has now been 22 hours since my first post to you, with no reply as yet, 

My goodness!  Aren't we the impatient ones!

Once you change the kernel, all bets are off, and it's safer to save
everything when in doubt.  If you happen to know that this particular
change was safe then you can manually tell 'tar' not to back up that
particular file; but you'll probably find it easier just to live with
the duplicate output.