Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 07:25:08 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: patl@asimov.volant.org, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, FreeBSD-Ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using tar Message-ID: <199608120525.HAA03441@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199608120247.TAA07107@baloon.mimi.com> from Satoshi Asami at "Aug 11, 96 07:47:07 pm"
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As Satoshi Asami wrote: > The reason I switched over was because tar couldn't handle the large > minor numbers in our /dev directories, at least when I tried a few > months ago.... The tar format cannot handle it. cpio can only handle it when using one of the new formats (-H crc or -H newc), but that only applies to storing it in an archive, not to cpio -p. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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