On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 03:12:01PM -0500, khym@azeotrope.org wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 11:59:36AM -0700, Ben Collver wrote:
> > I don't need to stick with the cpio format.  I'd like to understand what
> > is going wrong.  If a field is busting an 18bit limit, I wonder which
> > one?  Of the archiver programs and formats in the NetBSD base system,
> > which would you recommend?
> 
> Looks like pax has special handling for device and inode numbers that
> don't fit in the header, which is why a large inode number worked. What
> about uid, gid, and link count (ls -ln filename)?

It is the gid field.  Thanks for walking me through it!

As a note, I have the same problem when using ustar instead of cpio.

Cheers,

Ben