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Re: cpio truncating inode number
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory G. Woodbury)
Fri Nov 20 15:07:41 1998
From: ggw@cds.duke.edu (Gregory G. Woodbury)
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:06:52 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <001e01be14aa$409d5080$021310ac@MIS.morsco.com> from "James Baxter" at Nov 20, 98 11:21:46 am
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> I am using cpio to back up to a tape. On some files I get a message after
> the file name that says truncating inode number. The files seems to go the
> tape okay and I can read it back out and it seems okay. Can some one tell me
> what is going on? I hate errors I do not understand.
The cpio file format uses short ints for inode numbers, while the
ext2 uses int (generally 32-bits.) The truncation is a harmless artifact
of forcing ints into shorts. It is inconsequential on read-out because
the inode number in the cpio file is ignored.
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