From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Aug 11 22:51:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA02548 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 22:51:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA02543 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 22:51:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id HAA28973; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 07:51:01 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA09581; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 07:51:00 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id HAA03441; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 07:25:09 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199608120525.HAA03441@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: using tar To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 07:25:08 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: patl@asimov.volant.org, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, FreeBSD-Ports@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199608120247.TAA07107@baloon.mimi.com> from Satoshi Asami at "Aug 11, 96 07:47:07 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Satoshi Asami wrote: > The reason I switched over was because tar couldn't handle the large > minor numbers in our /dev directories, at least when I tried a few > months ago.... The tar format cannot handle it. cpio can only handle it when using one of the new formats (-H crc or -H newc), but that only applies to storing it in an archive, not to cpio -p. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)