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

[Florian Wolff]

On 08.05.2015 17:08, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Hi Florian,
>
> > Did you ever consider "inventing" a new header format to allow storing
> > large (> 8 GB) files?
>
> No, I didn't.  In my opinion, tar should be used for that.

But tar has a very restrictive limit on the file name's length, which is 
why I stumbled across cpio in the first place.

Regards,
Florian.

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