On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 11:04:34AM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote:
> Steve Borho wrote:
> > To quote the archive:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > Gregory G. "Wolfe" Woodbury
>
> Thanks Steve, what arguments did you you use to search with? at moongroup I
> used
>
> cpio inode
>
> and only got a single message about how cpio knows how to do 32 bit inodes.
I used google and used "cpio inode truncate" or something similar. It
just happened to find a RHL digest page. (google is amazing
sometimes)
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