Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Klaassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've run into a problem running 'tar cvvWf' if archive > > members are larger than 2GB. > > Does the problem occur if any members are larger than 2GB, or only in some > cases? > > I couldn't reproduce the problem with a simple test case, on Debian stable > with tar 1.16.1 that I compiled. Here's what I did. What happens when > you try the same thing with your 'tar'? > > $ echo foo | dd bs=1 seek=2G of=big > 4+0 records in > 4+0 records out > 4 bytes (4 B) copied, 0.00105214 s, 3.8 kB/s > $ ls -l big > -rw-r--r-- 1 eggert eggert 2147483652 May 8 09:42 big > $ tar cvvWf tar big > -rw-r--r-- eggert/eggert 2147483652 2007-05-08 09:42 big > Verify -rw-r--r-- eggert/eggert 2147483652 2007-05-08 09:42 big > $ rm big tar
The switch to base 256 that we defined around 1998 happens with 8 GB ore more.
