pax error message

[Polytropon]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:42:29 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote:
> When dir-path contains data over 7G in size pax issues this error msg,
> 
> pax: file is to large for cpio format ./dir-path
> 
> How do I correct this?

Maybe by patching or rewriting cpio. :-)

>From "man cpio", the BUGS section contains:

	The cpio archive formats cannot support files
	over 4 gigabytes, except for the ``odc'' variant,
	which can support files up to 8 gigabytes.

And cpio has a -c option (equals --format odc), maybe
you can hand this over from pax?



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