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  1. Velocipede Rider @[email protected] ·

    I got bored and reverse engineered how SCO #cpio is able to store such large files in their archives when the newc format only officially supports 4GiB file entries.

    I am not a coder, so I just made some files with cpio from the Heirloom Toolset and looked at them in hexdump.

    #rpm packages use #newc for payload and have the same 4 GiB individual limit. Maybe they should adopt this extension. The they can have up to 9 EiB entries, which should be good enough. 🤪

    gist.github.com/ruario/b02c762

    #cpio #rpm #newc