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From: wollman@sadye (Garrett Wollman)
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Subject: Re: Sorry, everyone, but I'm cpio clueless...
Message-ID: <1992Jul18.044401.2343@uvm.edu>
Date: 18 Jul 92 04:44:01 GMT
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In article <1992Jul17.180345.1296@nrao.edu> cflatter@nrao.edu writes:
>For those that a REALLY clueless about cpio: cpio is an archive program/format
>that may be used as an alternative to tar. It has a rather more flexible
>command line format than tar.
Unfortunately, it is also very much less portable than tar; it's not
byte-sex-independent, among other things. I have been trying for the
past several hours to search through the sources for various bits and
pieces of information before I get the box that I will be using to run
BSD on, and I can tell you that dealing with these tiny little files
and strange file format has been most unpleasant...
- The only cpio program that tries to make up for byte-sex problems
is GNU cpio.
- There are severe bugs in GNU cpio's inode-number cache which
prevent it from being able to extract more than about 75 files at a
time. (Or perhaps this is only the secondary lossage from an even
more severe wild-pointer bug.)
I didn't see the sources for the `install' program which is on the
distribution floppy, which was one of the most important things I was
looking for. (I want to know if it tries to give all of the rest of
the disk to /usr, which is unacceptable as I want to arrange my /usr,
/var, /usr/local, /usr/src, and /home in separate filesystems (indeed,
some will be on separate disks!).
Can someone out there verify that /dev/wd1 (second drive on the hard
disk controller) works correctly under 0.1?
-GAWollman
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