Its a limitation of most current filesystems including ext2fs and
reiserfs to do with handing 32 bit instructions within the code. Pipe
the output of smbtar through split with the appropriate arguments to
create a multivolume archive.
BillK
On 01 Jul 2001 13:38:02 -0700, Julia A. Case wrote:
> Is tar limited to files of 2GB? I upgraded my filesystem from ext2 to
> reiserfs to jfs and am still having trouble with smbtar creating a backup
> of a remote windows drive that is more than 2GB.
>
> Thanks,
> Julia
>
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