Hi,
I'm sorry if this
has been addressed elsewhere, but I haven't found any info so far .....
On some
Redhat or other releases, the CPIO operation terminates with a 'cpio:
write error' when the archive size on disk reaches 2GB; Using 'tar' on the
same target filesystem generates archives greater than 5GB with no
problem. Also it seems that the SuSE
version of CPIO works on some distros.
Are there any plans
to enable cpio to handle disk archives greater than 2GB?
# cpio
--version
GNU cpio version 2.5
GNU cpio version 2.5
# rpm -qa | grep
cpio
cpio-2.5-6
cpio-2.5-6
# cat
/proc/version
Linux version 2.4.20-31.9 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Tue Apr 13 18:04:23 EDT 2004
Linux version 2.4.20-31.9 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Tue Apr 13 18:04:23 EDT 2004
# ls -l
total 8524524
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2147483647 Apr 30 15:29 BACKUP.CPIO
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5159147520 Mar 27 13:53 backup.tar
total 8524524
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2147483647 Apr 30 15:29 BACKUP.CPIO
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5159147520 Mar 27 13:53 backup.tar
Thanks &
Regards,
Denis
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