Re: [Bug-tar] Separate return code when file changes while being read

[Joerg Schilling]

Steve Bergman <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Why? You can have as many files in a cpio backup as necessary.
>
> The big thing that "-H newc" gave cpio was the ability to handle inode
> numbers > 65536 properly.  I'm not certain how significant that really

I am not sure why you believe it is aropriate to make a cpio based backup at 
all...cpio has many other problems.

If you use star to write cpio archives, you may archives files up to 
8 GB -1 Byte and up to 65535 different hard links in a single archive as star
assigns "internal mapped inode #s" for the archive.

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/

Jörg

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