Toby Thain <t...@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
> > Yet it is used in ZFS flash archives on Solaris 10
>
> I can see the temptation, but isn't it a bit under-designed? I think
> Mr Nordin might have ranted about this in the past...
Isn't flash cpio based and thus not prepared for the future? Cpio coes not
support sparse files and is unable to archive files > 8 GB.
Jörg
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