ViirtualBox + cpio problems

[Andrey Zonov]

Why not `dump | restore'?

Mikolaj Rydzewski ?????:
> Hello to everyone here,
>
> I'd like to share with you some strange problem I encountered recently.
>
> I wanted to test procedure for server upgrade. So I decided to perform 
> such test using VirtualBox software. First I wanted to make some basic 
> tests, I installed fresh 8.0-REL, everything seemed to work fine, up 
> to the point I ran (with separate virtual drive mounted under /mnt):
>
> cd /
> find -x ./ | cpio -o | (cd /mnt; cpio -i)
>
> cpio threw error messages 'cannot create file', some files were 
> restored correctly, some were corrupted. I performed similiar test 
> several times, with errors every time.
>
> Has anybody got any clue what was wrong? Is it a known issue? Is there 
> any configuration option to fix it?
>
> Thanks
>

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Andrey Zonov