Re: probs with cp -p

[Walt H <waltabbyh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi mark,

I just tried doing the exact command you provided below in my recently 
installed gentoo system and it completes fine. I'm not using any acl's 
here, and do not have any acl tools installed. I'm using the kernel 
package from gentoo-sources from the 1.1a release which reports itself as:
Linux virtualgentoo.localhost.net 2.4.19-gentoo-r5 #1 Sat Jun 1 23:28:51 
PDT 2002 i686 AuthenticAMD

XFS is compiled into the kernel with quota support using the 2.95.3 
stock gcc. The only major thing that (might be) different between our 
setups, is that I'm running this under vmware for consideration as a 
future distro to use.
-Walt



mark wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 June 2002 02:34, Nathan Scott wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 01:27:59PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10:56:45AM +0000, mark wrote:
> > >
> > > > Okay I have now tried a vanilla 2.4.18 with XFS 1.1 kernel (just to
> > > > ensure it wasnt a problem with my patched 2.4.19) with similar results.
> > > > 'Argument too long' dissapeared but I still get the 'invalid argument'
> > > > message.  Could there be some kind of problem with my filesystem.
> > I doubt it, this error is more likely a coding issue in the kernel,
> > rather than an on-disk problem.
> >
> >
> > > > Is there more info I could provide?
> > > i think he meant try current cvs as of yesterday, it looks
> > There have been several related fixes, incl. yesterdays fix - please
> > try a current CVS kernel, Mark & let me know if it still fails.
> >
> > cheers.
>
> Okay, I just tried with a cvs from last night and the problem persists
>
> localhost me # cp --parents -pRdf /usr/local/share /home
> cp: preserving permissions for `/home/usr/local/share/doc': Invalid argument
> cp: preserving permissions for `/home/usr/local/share/man/man1': Invalid
> argument
> cp: preserving permissions for `/home/usr/local/share/man': Invalid argument
> cp: preserving permissions for `/home/usr/local/share/mindi': Invalid
>  argument cp: preserving permissions for `/home/usr/local/share/mondo':
>  Invalid argument cp: preserving permissions for `/home/usr/local/share':
>  Invalid argument
>
>
> Regards
>
> Mark
>
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