[ILUG-BOM] cpio archive size limit.

Hi.

I created a cpio archive of my / directory, excluding unwanted directories like /proc, /tmp, and /dev called fullbackup.cpio.

The size of the archvie is 5.1 GB. Now when I try to extract or list the contents of this cpio archive, I get the following error.

[root@appsdms /]# cpio -itv < fullbackup.cpio cpio: standard input is closed: Value too large for defined data type

Is there a limit for the size that a cpio archive can have? My filesystem is ext3 (RHEL AS3).

I wanted to backup this data to tape, and wanted to test it by saving it to my hard disk first.

Googling for the exact error didn't help apart from mentioning some 2GB file size limit for ext3 (??)

Regards, NMK.