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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Subject: Re: Hmmmm!  New error encountered with cpio while building root.flp
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>> To see the bug, try `cd somedir; /bin/ls | cpio -o | cpio -it'.  This
>> works here for somedir=/bin but fails for somedir=/usr/src/bin/cat.  I
>> think this has something to do with /bin being on a smaller file
>> system.

>Should that error perhaps be ``inode number would be truncated''???

No, truncation of inodes is a different bug.

st_rdev is identical to the first data block number for regular ufs
files.  Thus there is no (new) problem on file systems with < 65536
blocks.

Bruce