Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 03:40:12 +0100 (MET) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> To: robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au (Robert Chalmers) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: cpio truncating inode numbers? Message-ID: <199612260240.DAA25766@freebie.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199612200345.NAA01692@nanguo.chalmers.com.au> from Robert Chalmers at "Dec 20, 96 01:45:44 pm"
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Robert Chalmers writes: > Hi, > Does anyone know what this message means in cpio, > > cpio: xxxxx filename being backed up : truncating inode number > > > It this a disaster, or do I ignor it? tar seems to work ok, but > not cpio, if that is acutally an error. It's not a disaster, it's a historical quirk. The cpio format has only 2 bytes for the inode number (the inode is the real file description; the file names in the directories just point to the inode). I've forgotten why it's there in the first place, and since inodes have gone to 4 bytes, any large disk will have lots of inode numbers which won't fit in two bytes. You don't need the inode number when restoring the files, so you don't need to worry (but it sure is a nuisance :-) You're probably better off using tar. Greg
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