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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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