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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk>
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Subject: Re: Hmmmm!  New error encountered with cpio while building root.flp
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 03:03:52 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199507200955.TAA20979@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jul 20, 95 07:55:07 pm
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> >cpio: stand/date not dumped: minor number would be truncated
> >cpio: stand/dd not dumped: minor number would be truncated
> 
> >And so on.  It results in a root.flp image that's only 512 bytes long.. :-(
> 
> >Building the root.flp in /usr/src/release/Makefile *used* to work, but
> 
> cpio (and tar) now check for minor numbers that would be truncated.  pax
> now uses the correct macro for minor() so its existing check works.  The

You shouldn't check when "cpio -p" is in effect..

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