Hello,
I'm trying to use a block size larger (much larger) than 512 in copy-pass mode,
and cpio --help says this should be possible:
Operation modifiers valid in any mode:
--block-size=BLOCK-SIZE Set the I/O block size to BLOCK-SIZE * 512 bytes
-B Set the I/O block size to 5120 bytes
After trying to use the option and seeing (with strace) that the read and write
sizes weren't changing accordingly, I looked at the code and found indications
that these options are ignored in copy-pass mode:
in main.c, lines 764-765:
in_buf_size = DISK_IO_BLOCK_SIZE;
out_buf_size = DISK_IO_BLOCK_SIZE;
in util.c, line 221:
num_bytes = (num_bytes < DISK_IO_BLOCK_SIZE) ? num_bytes : DISK_IO_BLOCK_SIZE;
Since DISK_IO_BLOCK_SIZE is a macro defined as 512, I don't see how I could
ever change the block size at runtime. Am I misunderstanding cpio's usage, or
is there a bug in cpio or its usage message?
thanks,
lars
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