From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 5 19: 0:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.popsite.net (smtp.popsite.net [216.126.128.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F58237B403 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 19:00:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@twwells.com) Received: from twwells.com (01-052.051.popsite.net [64.24.21.52]) by smtp.popsite.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F7F2FF3B for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 21:00:37 -0500 (CDT) Received: from bill by twwells.com with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 157Sbu-000IH0-00; Tue, 05 Jun 2001 21:59:50 -0400 Subject: Re: cpio weirdness To: shovey@buffnet.net (Stephen Hovey) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 21:59:49 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Stephen Hovey" at Jun 05, 2001 09:15:35 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: "T. William Wells" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Um no - even static system binaries would get chewed up. Unless you mean > 1 changed file pukes em all up. That's exactly what I mean. If you're doing cpio, make sure the files involved are not changing. This includes cpio -p, too. > On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, T. William Wells wrote: > > > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message