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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