Roman Morokutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Warning:
> > ======> Never use cpio to do this kind of work! <============
> >
> > cpio has a bug with hard link handling that will cause real
> > problems if you use the outdated mkisofs that currently comes
> > with Solaris.
>
> Just to understand this right. Do you suggest not to use
> cpio at all? If not, what else? Or can cpio be used in conjunction
> with a recent mkisofs?
I cannot recommend to use cpio in general. It is marked deprecated by POSIX
because the cpio archive format cannot be easily ehnanced for the future
without breaking compatibility and it has a lot of undocumented "features".
The way it deals with hard links during the past years was wrong. From looking
at the source, it sems that with build 82 my proposed fix has been included
in cpio......
Note that copying trees with star instead of cpio is much faster.
> > If you do not use Rock Ridge, you will loose a lot of meta
> > data information.
>
> How to use Rock Ridge? Which flags should be set?
man mkisofs
use -r or -R, Rock Rodge schould always be used.....
Jörg
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