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Subject: Re: cpio weirdness
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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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