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From: stroyan@hpfcso.HP.COM (Mike Stroyan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: find and cpio
Message-ID: <7370206@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Sep 90 20:25:12 GMT
References: <1150@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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> When performing a restore using cpio I assume that each file read
> is allocated a fresh inode and therefore what may have been
> one file hard-linked several times will be restored as several
> individual files (taking up more disk-space than originally used).
> 
> I would be grateful if someone could clear this up for me.

Actually, cpio makes a list of inodes and links those files
with duplicated inodes when performing a restore.

Mike Stroyan, mike_stroyan@fc.hp.com