Steve Borho wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:28:48PM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote:
> > watching the output of a full cpio backup piped through ssh
> > I am getting these messages periodically. Should I be
> > worried? What do they mean?
> > They seem to com in batches on the drive.
> >
> > cpio: usr/doc/gv-3.5.8/gv-5.html: truncating inode number
>
> 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.
Bret
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