Steve Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is everyone using cpio for backups? The problem is that cpio has its > own problems. If, during the backup, it comes across a file to be > backed up that is > 4GB in size, it immediately aborts with an error. > (Yes, in the year 2006 it does this!) And there are no definite plans > to fix it, as a new header style would have to be added to the format. > One can use the "old c" style header and increase that limit to 8GB...
Probably you meant 'old ascii' format (-Hodc). Adding new format is indeed rather problematic, since it will break compatibility with other cpio implementations. > as long as they don't have more than 65536 files to backup. Why? You can have as many files in a cpio backup as necessary. > Is this return 2 on file truncation issue something that is likely to be > changed anytime soon? The new versions of GNU tar and cpio will be released this saturday. I will implement the new return code before the release. Regards, Sergey _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
