[Bug-gnu-utils] A small problem with cpio

[Chris Hall]

Hi,

I'm running cpio 2.4.2 on AIX 4.3.3 and have a problem with very large files, I
get this output when running the command:

$ ls -l
total 2867988
drwxrwxrwx    2 root     sys           512 Sep 14 17:05 chris/
-rw-rw-rw-    1 oracle   dba      2936774656 Sep  1 14:44 expFORTIS1P2307.dmp
drwxrwx---    2 root     system        512 Sep  1 13:56 lost+found/
drwxr-sr-x    5 root     sys           512 Sep  7 14:34 patches/
drwxr-sr-x    2 root     sys           512 Sep  7 13:34 simontemp/
drwxr-sr-x    2 root     sys           512 Sep  4 18:21 wally/

$ echo expFORTIS1P2307.dmp | cpio -ov > /dev/null
cpio: expFORTIS1P2307.dmp: Value too large to be stored in data type
1 block

This problem seems to manifest itself in files that are 2Gb or greater in size.

Regards
Chris Hall