Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 22:10:03 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Cc: current@freefall.cdrom.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Hmmmm! New error encountered with cpio while building root.flp Message-ID: <199507201210.WAA25205@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> To see the bug, try `cd somedir; /bin/ls | cpio -o | cpio -it'. This >> works here for somedir=/bin but fails for somedir=/usr/src/bin/cat. I >> think this has something to do with /bin being on a smaller file >> system. >Should that error perhaps be ``inode number would be truncated''??? No, truncation of inodes is a different bug. st_rdev is identical to the first data block number for regular ufs files. Thus there is no (new) problem on file systems with < 65536 blocks. Bruce
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