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- From: gwyn@BRL-SMOKE.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
-
- In article <890@uunet.UU.NET> Jim R Oldroyd <mcvax!inset!jr@seismo.css.gov> writes:
- >3. Only one version of the `cpio -c' format is currently in use.
-
- Ahem. Cray changed theirs. Admittedly that was very short-sighted!
-
- >8. Inode numbers are not recorded. Symbolic values (derived from a
- > file's inode and device numbers) are stored in the header
- > block. These values are used solely for hard link resolution.
-
- Unfortunately, on systems where the cpio fields for this information
- are not big enough, one can find that the wrong links are planted
- when files are de-archived. This has actually happened to me.
-
- I never did understand what inter-system archive interchange formats
- had to do with specification of a portable environment for
- applications. You probably couldn't read my 1/4" tape cartridge no
- matter what archive format I used on it. This issue seems to be a
- waste of time for 1003.1 and I recommend that it be delegated to
- another subgroup, preferably 1003.2 which needs to specify the utility
- to cope with such archives anyway.
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 12, Number 13
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