[Bug-cpio] cpio can't read large files

[Sean Fulton]

I've discovered a problem with CPIO 2.6 in that when you attempt to 
archive files larger than 2 Gbytes on an ext3 filesystem that was not 
created with -T largefile, it returns "Value too large for defined data 
type."" I reported this on the redhat bug list and received the 
following response:

Try cpio-2.6-9.FC4 or cpio-2.6-10(devel), file limit size has been enlarged to
4GB there. Because of cpio header it is not possible to get over 4GB limit.It's
up to upstream to change it.

I'm not sure how that relates to the filesystem but we have several 
machines with ext3 filesystems that contain mostly small HTML files 
(hence no -T largefile). However, there are several large archive files 
that need to be backed up.

I've tried the stock 2.6 source from gnu and that doesn't work either.

Any help would be appreciated.

sean

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