From a6cc856fbedff8911501881d048adee980e2821c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathan Stratton Treadway Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:12:04 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Minor changes. * doc/snapshot.texi: Clarify the use of nfs field in 0 and 1 formats. Give more precise information about which versions of tar used each format. --- doc/snapshot.texi | 17 ++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/snapshot.texi b/doc/snapshot.texi index 5607a08..03da663 100644 --- a/doc/snapshot.texi +++ b/doc/snapshot.texi @@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ used to determine which files were modified since the last backup. @GNUTAR{} version @value{VERSION} supports three snapshot file formats. The first format, called @dfn{format 0}, is the one used by -@GNUTAR{} versions up to 1.15.1. The second format, called @dfn{format -1} is an extended version of this format, that contains more metadata -and allows for further extensions. It was used by version -1.15.1. Starting from version 1.16 and up to @value{VERSION}, the -@dfn{format 2} is used. +@GNUTAR{} versions up to and including 1.15.1. The second format, called +@dfn{format 1} is an extended version of this format, that contains more +metadata and allows for further extensions. It was used by alpha release +version 1.15.90. For alpha version 1.15.91 and stable releases +version 1.16 up through @value{VERSION}, the @dfn{format 2} is used. @GNUTAR{} is able to read all three formats, but will create snapshots only in format 2. @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ metadata descriptions, one per line. Each description has the following format: @smallexample -@var{nfs}@var{dev} @var{inode} @var{name} +[@var{nfs}]@var{dev} @var{inode} @var{name} @end smallexample @noindent @@ -42,7 +42,10 @@ where: @table @var @item nfs A single plus character (@samp{+}), if this directory is located on -an @acronym{NFS}-mounted partition, or a single space otherwise; +an @acronym{NFS}-mounted partition, otherwise empty. + +(That is, for non-NFS directories, the first character on the +description line contains the start of the @var{dev} field.) @item dev Device number of the directory; -- 2.45.2