problems with cp -p

[mark <mark.newman2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi I have been using XFS for a while with no problems.  However I have
recently moved to Gentoo linux and backups are now much more critical to me.

I am trying to use Mondo Rescue as a backup program and one of the commands
 it uses is as follows


cp --parents -pRdf /usr/local/share/mondo /home/mondo.scratch.1050/

which returns the following

cp: `/usr/local/share/mondo/restore-scripts.tgz': Argument list too long
cp: preserving permissions for
`/home/mondo.scratch.19294/usr/local/share/mondo': Invalid argument


it seems to be the -p switch which causes this.  It has been suggested that
this could be a problem with XFS (I am running version 1.1)  My kernel is a
Gentoo supplied patched kernel.  I could possibly try a more vanilla one.

Perhaps someone could try cp on a directory with these arguments and see if
they can duplicate these results

Any help is appreciated.

Regards

Mark

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