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Bug 160314

Summary: cpio lacks large file support
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Steffen Schoenwiese <schoenwiese>
Component: cpioAssignee: Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
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Description Steffen Schoenwiese 2005-06-14 11:51:46 UTC 
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Description of problem:
cpio lacks support for files larger than 2 GB:

[root@em2:test]$dd if=/dev/zero of=large_file bs=1024 count=2100000
[root@em2:test]$ls -lah
total 2.1G
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Jun 14 13:58 .
drwxrwxrwt  7 root root 4.0K Jun 14 13:55 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2.1G Jun 14 13:33 large_file

[root@em2:test]$ls | cpio -ov > test.cpio
cpio: large_file: Value too large for defined data type
cpio: test.cpio: truncating inode number
test.cpio
1 block

[root@em2:test]$ls -lah
total 2.1G
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Jun 14 13:58 .
drwxrwxrwt  7 root root 4.0K Jun 14 13:55 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2.1G Jun 14 13:33 large_file
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  512 Jun 14 13:58 test.cpio


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cpio-2.5-7.EL4.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a large file (dd if=/dev/zero of=large_file bs=1024 count=2100000)
2. do ls | cpio -ov > test.cpio

  

Actual Results:  cpio shows an error message and the resulting file is way too small

Expected Results:  No error and a complete cpio-file

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jussi Silvennoinen 2005-06-20 20:46:21 UTC 
I think you're testing with cpio-2.5-7, this was fixed in cpio-2.5-7.EL4.1 and I
can run those commands just fine without problems.
Comment 2 Steffen Schoenwiese 2005-06-21 10:33:04 UTC 
Well, "rpm -q -f /bin/cpio" says, it belongs to cpio-2.5-7.EL4.1, which should
be the fixed one. But the problem remains, just checked it again.
Comment 3 Peter Vrabec 2005-06-23 11:04:51 UTC 
It's fixed in cpio-2.5-7.EL4.2.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 154507 ***