This installment enhancement is new in the Solaris Express 2/06 release.
This Solaris Flash enhancement enables a user to create an archive that includes large files. The flarcreate command creates a Solaris Flash archive that can contain individual files of 4-Gbyte or more. The available archive utilities are:
The portable archive interchange, pax utility. This utility can create an archive without size limitations on individual files. The pax utility is the default archiving utility.
The cpio archive utility. This utility is invoked by using the -L cpio option. The cpio utility can archive individual files not larger than 2-Gbyte or 4-Gbyte. The file size limitation depends on the version of the cpio utility.
The pax utility was included in the Solaris 7 OS release. The Solaris Flash archives created by using the pax utility can only be deployed on a Solaris OS with a pax utility. When a user deploys the archive on systems that are running the Solaris 2.6 or earlier versions, the user must use the -L cpio option.
For more information, see the pax(1) and the cpio(1) man pages. See also the Solaris Express Installation Guide: Solaris Flash Archives (Creation and Installation).