On Friday 03 June 2005 11:18, Lengyel, Florian wrote:
>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...
>
>-FL
I can say that I did a tar -t on a 2.5GB tar file just now, with no 
errors, so at 1.15 is clean in this regard.  Repeating the test using 
tar-1.13-25 on that same 2.5GB file also worked just fine.


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