Was reminded about this by a bug review. The original bug was about cpio images in general, not initramfs. It was a sdk-ptest image so no doubt that does have some huge files, but yes 4GB is still bigger than you'd expect.
I'll kick a build and see if I can replicate... Ross On 14 November 2017 at 19:10, Andre McCurdy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 2:11 AM, André Draszik <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, 2017-11-14 at 22:14 +0800, Shashwat Pandey wrote: >>> Using ustar format due to ROOTFS size exceeding issue. >>> Ustar supports up to 8GB. >>> Where as newc support up to 4GB. >>> >>> [YOCTO #11674] >> >> Do recent kernels actually support ustar for initramfs? I thought it only >> supported newc? My 4.9 kernel certainly still only mentions newc... > > Also note that the sizes being referred to are actually the "file size > limits for individual files" not the total cpio archive size. > > https://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/manual/cpio.html > > What's the case where > 4GB files are needed in an initramfs? > -- > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
