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> Um no - even static system binaries would get chewed up.  Unless you mean
> 1 changed file pukes em all up.
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> On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, T. William Wells wrote:
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> > > I use pax with its defaults and avoid cpio - cpio tends to restore oddly,
> > > like a counter can go off, puttin the end of some files at the top of
> > > other files etc.
> > 
> > This is a long-standing problem with cpio. It occurs when the
> > length of a file changes during a cpio run. cpio does work reliably
> > for static files.
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