thoughts on large files

Well, I have mentioned before that dd-lfs is the only thing
on tomsrtbt that can handle files over 2GB.  This is fine
for piping archives to and from a big archive file.  But what
about archiving and restoring when files in the filesystems
are over 2GB?  Short of upgrading to glibc2 or NewLib, or
writing (finding?) a tar or cpio or pax in assembler, all
I can think of is that it would be a good idea to seperate
files over 2GB into a separate archive.  Then, at least the
tomsrtbt tar/cpio/pax won't crash when you are restoring.
You can restore your >2GB files *after* everything else is
restored by tomsrtbt.  (? This is easy to do with find/cpio,
I dunno how to do it with tar other than an Exclude-list,
that might be the best approach, anyway, first 'find' files
over 2GB into the Exclude-list, then make the archives...)
The key thing to be aware of now is that a backup will maybe
likely not complain, if it doesn't support LFS and hits a
big file... so... don't trust your tools, even on your main
system, doublecheck that your tar or cpio is really correctly
supporting LFS, then think about how it will affect restores.
I'm open to ideas on the best longer-term workaround...  -Tom