Hi, I was just restoring a bunch of files from backup using find|cpio when I noticed that cpio does not copy files >2GB properly. The resulting files were "oddly" sized (<actual size> % 2GB, perhaps?).
Even more alarming, cpio did not warn in any way about not copying the file correctly! The cpio command exited normally ($? was 0). Output from "-pmdu" did not indicate any errors! Fortunately, I happened to run 'du' and noticed it giving different sizes for the restored and "backup" directories, I've since re-restored the affected files using plain cp. I guess I was lucky not doing the backup using cpio! :( Seriously bad behaviour here -- something that really should be fixed for e.g "Solaris 11". FWIW, I know about "largefile(5)", but I don't think failing silently like this (copying "some" data) can be considered proper behaviour in any scenario. (This probably does not strictly belong in zfs-discuss, although for me both the backup media and the destination pool to restore to are ZFS.) /H _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
