Re: probs with cp -p

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

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.

-- 
Nathan