Re: Failing on relatively large partition

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Feb  8, 2001, Chris Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> If this is the case, then the culprit appears to be the first gtar, as
> it has taken forever to start piping data into gzip

That's indeed the way GNU tar works.

> If these assumptions are correct, any suggestions?

Increase dtimeout (new in 2.4.2).

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