cpio_vxfs - copy file archives in and out

cpio -i [ generic_options ] [ -e { force | ignore | warn }]

cpio -o [ generic_options ] [ -e { force | ignore | warn }]

cpio -p [ generic_options ] [ -e { force | ignore | warn }] directory

VRTSvxfs

The VxFS-specific cpio is an extension of the generic cpio command. The VxFS-specific cpio supports all the options of the generic cpio command, plus the -e option to preserve file extent attributes. Extent attributes include space reservation, fixed extent size, and extent allocation flag information.

No cluster issues; command operates the same on cluster file systems.

-e	The -e option requires one of the following arguments. If you omit the -e option, warn is the default cpio behavior. force Fails the extract or copy operation on a file if the file’s extent attributes cannot be preserved. ignore Ignores any errors in preserving extent attributes. warn Issues a warning if the space reservation or the fixed extent size of the file cannot be preserved. This is the default behavior.
-i	In copy in mode (-i plus -e), cpio preserves any file extent attributes extracted from the archive.
-o	In copy out mode (-o plus -e), cpio stores the extent attributes of the files in the archive.
-p	In pass mode (-p plus -e), cpio copies the extent attributes of the input file to the output file.

Archives created by the VxFS-specific cpio and those of the generic cpio are fully compatible; files archived by one can be extracted by the other.

cpio(1), getext(1), ls_vxfs(1), setext(1), vxfsio(7)