Lengyel, Florian --> owner-amanda-users (2005-06-03 11:18:05 -0400):
> This business about tar reminds me of a not-terribly well documented problem
> with tar: under some operatinjg systems, tar has a 2 gigabyte limit on the
> size of 
> the tar archive! The tar that came with red hat 7.3 had this limitation, I
> believe. 
> This is listed on the web somewhere--perhaps it should be part of the FAQ.
> 
> Even splitting DLEs into 10 gig chunks won't help if the tar archive is
> silently truncated...  

I don't use Linux anymore, but IIRC tar is not to blame here: it's
probably a [1]LFS problem.


Cheers, Jukka

[1] http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html

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