Package: cpio
Version: 2.11-8
I ran into some problems with CPIO not properly archiving files,
supposedly larger than 4GB, though the file in question is 5.4GB in size.
I dug around the web and this appears to be a common problem with cpio,
yet, I came across an archived bug report in Debian's bug reports. In
this archived message, Ruben Molina claims the bug is repaired as of
2.11-1, but I'm using 2.11-8 and it's still present. Here's the output
from my attempt to install and use this thing.
{root}[/home/cheetah] firemoth:6> dpkg -i cpio_2.11-8_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 173047 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace cpio 2.11-4 (using cpio_2.11-8_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement cpio ...
Setting up cpio (2.11-8) ...
Processing triggers for install-info ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
total 8.1G
drwxrws--- 2 root staff 4.0K Apr 29 00:16 ./
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4.0K Sep 11 04:01 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 1.1K Apr 29 00:16 fstab
-r--r--r-- 1 root staff 2.9K Apr 29 00:16 grub.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 5.4M Apr 28 22:21 luxray-etc.cpio
-rw-r----- 1 root staff 5.4G Apr 21 18:41 luxray.system.2012.04.22.cpio
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 22M Apr 28 22:18 mysql.cpio
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 725M Apr 28 22:25 usr-local.cpio
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2.0G Apr 28 22:19 var-www.cpio
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 807K Apr 28 22:22 ventrilo_srv.cpio
{root}[/home/system.backup] firemoth:11> echo
luxray.system.2012.04.22.cpio | cpio -o -F test.cpio
cpio: luxray.system.2012.04.22.cpio: field width not sufficient for
storing file size
1 block
So it seems this bug is still there and causing issues with using cpio
to create backups that contain large files.
I pulled 2.11-8 from the unstable branch hoping to get the very latest
and installed it over 2.11-4 (which also has the same problem.)
A link to the old archived report claiming this has been fixed:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495962
I'm using linux kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64
and libc 2.11.3-3
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