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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!swrinde!mips!think.com!wupost!gumby!destroyer!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!sadye!wollman From: wollman@sadye (Garrett Wollman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Sorry, everyone, but I'm cpio clueless... Message-ID: <1992Jul18.044401.2343@uvm.edu> Date: 18 Jul 92 04:44:01 GMT References: <1992Jul17.160256.4518@news.iastate.edu> <1992Jul17.180345.1296@nrao.edu> Sender: news@uvm.edu Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility Lines: 36 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 -- Garrett A. Wollman = wollman@emba.uvm.edu = UVM is welcome to my opinions = uvm-gen!wollman = That's what being alive is all about. No deity, no higher goal exists, than to bring joy to another person. - Elf Sternberg