--- Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Klaassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've run into a problem running 'tar cvvWf' if > > archive members are larger than 2GB. > > Are yu sure this is not for files >= 8 GB?
Yes. However, I was wrong in my initial 2GB statement; the problem appears for files > 4GB. I've changed the subject line to reflect this. Files that don't fail: 5.1G zero.big ### filled from /dev/zero 2.4G n2.big ### filled with '2' 2.5G random2.bigfile ### filled from /dev/urandom Files that fail: 5.0G random3.bigfile ### filled from /dev/urandom 4.9G n1.big ### filled with '1' 5.5G num.big ### filled with '1', '2', etc. Also: The problem does not occur on an amd64 box. Andrew ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html
