On Thursday 03 of July 2014 12:30:52 har...@redhat.com wrote: > From: Harald Hoyer <har...@redhat.com> > > Having the same files and directories on different locations results in > different archives, because the inode numbers and devices are not the > same. > > The "--reproducible" flag will assign increasing inode numbers to > the files, resulting in equal archives for equal files and directories. > > A hash table is used to find already assigned inode numbers for linked > files.
Something like that could fix problems with big inode numbers in older archive types -- patch for that was proposed years ago: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cpio/2011-11/msg00000.html Pavel
