Pieter Bowman wrote at 11:41 -0600 on Apr 25, 2008: > The final issue I found was that the inode numbers in the snapshots > change each time a new snapshot is created. This is a problem with > GNU tar's listed-incremental facility. To work around this I ended up > hacking GNU tar to make it ignore the inodes stored in the listed > incremental files. This was just a simple change, to have ZFS > filesystems treated the same as NFS. The patch was submitted to the > GNU tar developers, but was rejected. Here is the patch as applied to > GNU tar 1.16 (this patch also contains what I consider a fix for an > actual coding bug):
The gtar devs finally accepted something to help with this problem: --no-check-device. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.archivers.amanda.user/32804/match=nfs+tar