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Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 10:06:57 -0700
From: Alex Huppenthal <alex@comsys.com>
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Subject: Inodes truncated using dump/restore on 2.2.1 with DAT
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I have an HP DAT drive. Tar backups work fine, dump and cpio both
complain that INODES are being truncated.

Any clues on how this affects restore and why it happens?

 -alex