[Bug 223955] cpio needs a --block-size= option

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223955

Conrad Meyer <cem at freebsd.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Conrad Meyer <cem at freebsd.org> ---
Interesting.  I wasn't aware cpio archives even supported multi-gigabyte files. 
 (They don't run into a 32-bit size limit?)

That said, why continue to use cpio at all instead of cp -R?

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