Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]> wrote:
> See http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/tar_68.html#SEC132
This is not 100% correct:
- in POSIX mode, the maximum path length (in case that there are no
other meta data entries) is 8GB
- in "GNU mode", when the base 256 notation from star is used, the
maximum path length is 2**95
Jörg
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