On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dale wrote: > >> Well, it seems tar can not handle 4.7Gb files any way. I'm not sure why > >> but it seems happy with 2.2Gb files. Anybody know about the upper > >> limits on tar? > > > > emm. It should be handle to at least 8gb. And since I use tar to write to > > my 280gb tapelib ... and this guy used a 21gb tarball for his tests: > > http://bulk.fefe.de/lk2006/bench.html > > > > you are doing something wrong. > > Well, Kdar does the making part. I'm not doing anything fancy when > unpacking it but when I do it with it set to 4.7Gb, I get a error about > half way though unpacking. I can't recall the error at the moment but I > should be able to reproduce it if needed. > > I was thinking tar could handle huge files which is what confuses me. > > Dale > > :-)
tar can handle single files of 8gb and archives of enourmous sizes. -- [email protected] mailing list
