Steve Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
