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[Alan Fargusson]

> How big is the pipe?  I read somewhere pipes use the root file system,
> which on our computer has about 1100 free blocks.  Yet, I have used
> cphier to transfer, for example, the entire netnews source, including
> rn, from one drive to another.  All I created was the highest level
> directory.  Cphier made all the rest.  Will it sometimes work and sometimes
> fail on a transfer of this size?

Pipes use an inode on the root file system. They are limited to 5120 bytes
on System V, and 4096 on some other systems, by code in the kernel.
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Alan Fargusson.

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