cpio 2GB file limit?

[miah]

Upgrade cpio =)  alternatively, I've seen hax0rs rootkits replace
system utils with stuff that didnt support largefilesizes.. so if it
did work.....

Kernel has to support it, and so do the userland tools.

-miah

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 03:45:36PM -0400, Bob Gorman wrote:
> Any one ever bump into a 2GB file size limit with cpio? That is the file to be copied is >2GB.  Just curious.  I'll go fix this on Monday...
> 
>   cpio -o --block-size=64 --format=crc
>   Value too large for defined data type
> 
> kernel-2.4.21-20.EL.i686.rpm ext3
> 
> 
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