Re: [COMPRESS]tar 2Gb limit?

On 2011-01-07, Lin Sun wrote: While reading the user doc for the commons compress project - http://commons.apache.org/compress/examples.html Under tar section, it says - The tar package does not support the full POSIX tar standard nor more modern GNU extension of said standard. It cannot

Re: [COMPRESS]tar 2Gb limit?

Hi Stefan Thanks much for the prompt reply. Good to know compress supports up to 8GB and I am very eager to try it today. Do you know if this sentence is still valid - The tar package does not support the full POSIX tar standard nor more modern GNU extension of said standard since you think

Re: [COMPRESS]tar 2Gb limit?

On 2011-01-07, Lin Sun wrote: Do you know if this sentence is still valid - The tar package does not support the full POSIX tar standard nor more modern GNU extension of said standard Absoluetly, yes. since you think compress project should support up to 8GB? I am hoping it is no longer

[COMPRESS]tar 2Gb limit?

Hi While reading the user doc for the commons compress project - http://commons.apache.org/compress/examples.html Under tar section, it says - The tar package does not support the full POSIX tar standard nor more modern GNU extension of said standard. It cannot deal with entries larger than 2