cp weirdness on /dev

[Joel Hammer]

Oy. This isn't just cp.

I tried to tar this directory structure, thinking cp was the culprit. It
wasn't. This command from machine B:
tar -cPv /mnt/jhammer6/mnt/hdc1/Backup_jhammer6/ -f jhammer6.tar
 
results in the exact same problem in the dev directory as I saw with cp.

tar -tvf jhammer6.tar

-rwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2000-02-17 11:36:12
/mnt/jhammer6/mnt/hdc1/Backup_jhammer6/dev/cm206cd

-r-xr-xr-x root/root 835731456 2003-11-27 12:04:58
/mnt/jhammer6/mnt/hdc1/Backup_jhammer6/dev/core

Note that /proc was copied, not just the link.

Now, I am using devfs on receiving machine, B. It would seem too weird
if THAT were the problem.

If I tar this directory structure on machine A, it works as expected.

This doesn't seem like a samba issue. 

Joel