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 -- bashian roulette: $ ((RANDOM%6)) || rm -rf ~
