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

[Tim Kientzle]

On May 8, 2015, at 8:14 AM, Florian Wolff <address@hidden> wrote:

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.

Current tar formats have no restrictions on file name length or file length.

In particular, the “pax interchange format” is a completely standard extension of the older ustar tar format:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799//utilities/pax.html

Pax interchange format is well-supported by GNU tar, star, bsdtar, and others.

Cheers,

Tim