[Bug-cpio] New header format for large files?

[Florian Wolff]

Hi there!

Did you ever consider "inventing" a new header format to allow storing 
large (> 8 GB) files? The ODC format provides only 11 octal digits to 
represent the file size.

I use cpio as an export format for my backup tool 
https://github.com/workflo/shaback
This is a really neat feature since it allows recovering without having 
to install any kind of special software on the system to be recovered: 
https://github.com/workflo/shaback/wiki/Remote-Desaster-Recovery
But the drawback so far is that I cannot recover files larger than 8 GB 
this way :(

Thanks in advance,
Florian.

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