Re: [Bug-cpio] cpio can't read large files

[Lars Nordin]

On Thursday 12 January 2006 07:25 pm, t takahashi wrote:
> On 1/10/06, Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > I will try. But 8 G still seems kind of small. Are there plans to change
> > > this?
> >
> > This does not depend entirely on me. Cpio header layouts are standard
> 
> perhaps this is a great opportunity for interested developers to
> create a new -H type that:
> 
> o has no limits, period
> o is portable, period
> o fully specifies all edge cases to the finest detail
>   (including trailing slash, relsyms, duplicate entries, permissions
> on dirs, etc.)
> o allows for future features (like marking pathnames for deletion)
> o is simple enough to implement widely

I would add 
  o has a crc, so that written data can be verified