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The list is divided -into two parts, the messages are in somehow arbitrary order. - -* Bug reports --------------- - -** cpio -d bug (fwd) (score: 47) - Author: Christian Smith <csmith@micromuse.com> - Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 02:06:46 +0000 (GMT) - This was bounced from bug-cpio@bogus.example.com I guess that - isn't set up yet. -- /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST - HTML MAIL X - AGAINST MS ATTACHMENTS / \ $ cpio --version GNU - cpio version 2 - /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-11/msg00170.html (4,548 bytes) - -** bug in cpio with tapechange in copy-in-mode (score: 34) - Author: Bernd =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sch=FCler?= - <b.schueler@eckert-buerotechnik.de> - Date: 05 Aug 2002 18:37:56 +0200 - Hello, last i made a restore from tape, and no request for next - tape happend, only an read-error occured. Here is an quick - patch, please verify the problem and the patch-code. I'm not - sure, if the pr - /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-08/msg00122.html (4,518 bytes) - -** Re: bug in cpio? (score: 40) - Author: kasal@matsrv.math.cas.cz (Stepan Kasal) - Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 07:44:14 +0000 (UTC) - Hallo, the following option should help: -d, --make-directories - Create leading directories where needed. Details: cpio won't - create the directory for the file. Observe: kasal$ echo - /home/kasal/tmp/db - /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-06/msg00306.html (4,862 bytes) - -** cpio 2.4.2 bug? (score: 40) - Author: "H.J. Thomassen" <H.J.Thomassen@ATComputing.nl> - Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 18:09:10 +0100 (CET) - Hello, We use GNU-cpio 2.4.2 and have the following problem: - Short: Assume I have a directory with two filenames, which are - hardlinks to the same i-node. I make a crc-cpio archive with - both files; th - /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-01/msg00161.html (5,624 bytes) - -** These two seem to be related: -*** cpio copy-in and multiply-linked files (score: 35) - Author: Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com> - Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 23:46:04 -0700 - Hi, I was wondering whether it was a bug or a feature that GNU - cpio, while in copy-in mode, will create a multiply-linked set - of files all of size 0 if the last linked file is not copied in - due to th - /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-08/msg00074.html (4,142 bytes) - -*** (no subject) (score: 2) - Author: brian@debian.org (Brian Mays) - Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 16:35:13 -0400 - When hard-linked files (along with many other files) are - archived to a cpio ustar format archive, the files are _not_ - all archived as hard links to each other in the archive. When - the same set of fil - /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-07/msg00080.html (5,666 bytes) - -** These too: - -*** Re: minor problems with slackware-current (score: 7) - Author: Cezary Sliwa <sliwa@cft.edu.pl> - Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:43:37 +0200 - "cpio --sparse" corrupts data. A fix attached. C.S. Attachment: - cpio-2.4.2-sparse.diff Description: Text document - /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-08/msg00000.html (3,989 bytes) - -*** cpio --sparse (score: 34) - Author: Cezary Sliwa <sliwa@cft.edu.pl> - Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:43:34 +0200 (CEST) - the '--sparse' option of gnu cpio causes data corruption - (blocks of zeros are lost or appended to other files). C.S. - /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-03/msg00235.html (3,671 bytes) - -** And these too -*** cpio-2.4.2: data corruption bug (score: 35) - Author: Todd Kelley <toddk@oeone.com> - Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 17:00:06 -0500 - Hello, Recently at OEone we fixed a bug in GNU cpio-2.4.2: When - a file over about 0.5 megabyes grows while it is being - archived, it and all files following it in the archive are - corrupted. The crc do - /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-02/msg00062.html (4,297 bytes) - -*** cpio pass-through can corrupt files (score: 36) - Author: "Parrott, Jeff" <Jeff.Parrott@sea.siemens.com> - Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:32:57 -0400 - I have seen corrupted files as a result of using the - pass-through option in cpio. The corruption occurs when - active/in-use (and growing) files are being copied. The problem - is that the file size has - /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-10/msg00087.html (4,974 bytes) - -** cpio 2.4.2 unconditionally takes the tape drive offline (score: - 39) - Author: Scott Larson <scowl@plaza.ds.adp.com> - Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:15:52 -0800 - We have been copying multiple volumes to a single tape with the - System 5 version of cpio. The gnu version of cpio doesn't - support this since it takes the tape offline (i.e. ejects the - tape) after rea - /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-01/msg00087.html (4,264 bytes) - -** cpio -t can see international filenames, find -ls also suffers - (score: 35) - Author: "Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@kimo.FiXcomTHiS.tw> - Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 07:38:53 +0800 - GNU cpio version 2.4.2 with cpio -t I can see Chinese [big5] - filenames. with -tv, they become \267\247 etc Just like what - happens with find . -print vs. find . -ls -- - http://www.geocities.com/jidanni - /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2000-12/msg00143.html (4,084 bytes) - -* Suggestions -------------- - -** GNU cpio suggestion (score: 42) - Author: "H.J.Thomassen" <hjt@ATComputing.nl> - Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:27:11 +0100 - Re: suggestion for GNU-cpio extension (plus reference - implementation) We use cpio for our backup purposes. The backup - is started automatically in the middle of the night. To chase - away all users we d - /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-12/msg00244.html (7,474 bytes) - -** cpio suggestion + patch (score: 38) - Author: Taylor Gautier <tgautier@s8.com> - Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:40:05 -0700 - I have a suggestion for cpio. The suggestion is to make it copy - files into a temporary name and then rename the file as the - last operation. Since UNIX filesystems are supposed to - gaurantee atomicity - /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-04/msg00169.html (10,674 - bytes) - -** [cpio] man page enhancement: a Example section ? (score: 5) - Author: Yannick Patois <patois@calvix.org> - Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:48:33 +0200 (CEST) - Hello, I seldom use cpio (as I think many people) and only had - to use it once or twice. IMHA, would be good to have a small - section with an example of most often performed actions - (creating an archiv - /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-10/msg00270.html (4,336 bytes) - -** Patch to cpio to enable verbose *skipping* of files (score: 40) - Author: Tomas Pospisek <tpo@sourcepole.ch> - Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 13:54:14 +0200 (CEST) - This patch enables cpio to be verbose about the files that it - does not copy, which is very handy for seeing cpio's progress - through a tape or simply for debuging. The patch along with a - Debian packag - /archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-10/msg00083.html (4,548 bytes) - |