+2GB Files in Golden Images and net_recovery images

[Alex Green]

Hi All,

I was wondering if anyone has a brief list of the software replacments/upgrade that have to be made to allow a make_sys_image support files greater than 2Gb and also the changes needed to support +2Gb files for make_net_recovery.


Thanks

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

I think there is no problem with images greater than 2GB.

Files within images cant be greater than 2GB because the use of pax or tar standard commands, see man pax, tar.

[Alex Green]

So is there anyway to get pax to support files above 2Gb... tar is fixable with an upgrade to GNU tar

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

I recall you can choose pax or tar or cpio in when creating make_sys_image.

make_sys_image is a script so you can change it.


If i recall well, INSTCMD on /opt/ignite/boot is where are copied all executables used when install... and you can modify it.., and copy gnu tar overwriting std tar.


See Ignite docs.
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But maybe you can try compress that files before run make_sys_image. But this means run on unsupported mode....

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Alex

Also servers must have large files systems enabled.

Paula