Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 11:00:27 -0800 (PST) From: "Craig Shaver" <craig@ProGroup.COM> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cpio truncating inode numbers? Message-ID: <199612261900.LAA13305@seabass.progroup.com> In-Reply-To: <m0vdFKE-000CmsC@mips.pfalz.de> from "Christian Weisgerber" at Dec 26, 96 01:54:15 pm
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> > Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> writes: > > > > cpio: xxxxx filename being backed up : truncating inode number > > > > It's not a disaster, it's a historical quirk. The cpio format has > > only 2 bytes for the inode number (the inode is the real file del ... > > > You're probably better off using tar. > > What's the maximum path length GNU tar can handle? 100 characters? 250? > POSIX says 256 bytes. -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088
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