On Fri 28/11/08 13:09 , Håkan Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent:
> Hi,
>
> I was just restoring a bunch of files from backup using find|cpio when I
> noticed that cpio does not copy files >2GB properly. The resulting files
> were "oddly" sized (<actual size> % 2GB, perhaps?).
>
> Even more alarming, cpio did not warn in any way about not copying the
> file correctly! The cpio command exited normally ($? was 0). Output from
> "-pmdu" did not indicate any errors!
>
> Seriously bad behaviour here -- something that really should be fixed for
> e.g "Solaris 11".
>
See the rather confusing comment at the end of the cpio man page:
The new pax(1) format, with a command that supports it (for
example, pax , tar, or cpio), should be used for large
files. The cpio command is no longer part of the current
POSIX standard and is deprecated in favor of pax.
--
Ian.
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