Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 21:59:49 -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: <E157Sbu-000IH0-00@twwells.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10106052115130.5857-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> from "Stephen Hovey" at Jun 05, 2001 09:15:35 PM
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> Um no - even static system binaries would get chewed up. Unless you mean > 1 changed file pukes em all up. That's exactly what I mean. If you're doing cpio, make sure the files involved are not changing. This includes cpio -p, too. > On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, T. William Wells wrote: > > > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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