Re: [Bug-tar] Issue with GNU Tar and HP-UX LVM v2.2 filesystems

[Nathan Stratton Treadway]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 20:05:38 +0000, Michael White wrote:
> I got the tar-snapshot-edit utility and it calls out this file system.
> 
> Director: /cghbck
>                 Dev value too high: "18446744071562076161" > 4294967295

(I assume this is a cut-and-paste error and the actual output said
"Directory:")

> From some old posts it appears this may be due to LVM issues so I ran
> a test and for HP-UX LVM version 1 type volume group the incremental
> works as advertised.  But when I create a HP-UX LVM 2.2 version volume
> group I get the above error.

I don't know anything about HP-UX LVM devices specifically, but it might
provide some useful information to know what "stat <path-to-volume>/cghbck"
reports (for both LVM type 1 and type 2.2 volumes).

                                                        Nathan

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