Hi,

Galen Johnson schrieb:

Jon LaBadie wrote:

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It might also be pointed out that 'tar' has this 2 Gb limitation, unless they fixed it in 1.13.25. I've run headlong into it before.

=G=

i think this is not correct. i've handeled archives > 2gb with tar 1.12.
If you are on a filesystem with a 2 gb limit, your libc has a 2g Limit or the
system your tar was compiled on had a 2gb limit, yes then tar too has the 2GB
problem when reading/writing from/to hd.

This was true for most intel-linux systems until auround the middle of this
year. (don't remember exact time when it went away)
Christoph