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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