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 compress project should support up to 8GB? I am hoping it is no longer valid. I don't really understand what it means. :-( Also, is true streaming supported? Thanks again Lin On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 3:33 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 deal with entries >> larger than 2 GByte either. > >> I wonder if this is still a limitation or should the limitation >> changed to 8 GB instead of 2 GB. > > I'm not sure anybody has ever confirmed success with an entry between 2 > and 8 GByte, so I don't really know. Looking at the code, you are most > likely correct and the limit actually is 8 GByte. > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org
