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Date:      Tue, 5 Jun 2001 16:23:28 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "T. William Wells" <bill@twwells.com>
To:        shovey@buffnet.net (Stephen Hovey)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cpio weirdness
Message-ID:  <E157NMO-000AGU-00@twwells.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10106051150070.1128-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> from "Stephen Hovey" at Jun 05, 2001 11:50:36 AM

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> I use pax with its defaults and avoid cpio - cpio tends to restore oddly,
> like a counter can go off, puttin the end of some files at the top of
> other files etc.

This is a long-standing problem with cpio. It occurs when the
length of a file changes during a cpio run. cpio does work reliably
for static files.

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