Joerg Schilling wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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, quoting a troll like fefe is not a good idea too. The page is full of
nonsense. OK, it at least mentions a 21 GB tar archive but not a tar archive
with a 21 GB file inside.
The historic tar archive format supports single files up to 8 GB in tar
archives. Since POSIX.1-2001, the extended tar archive format (called "pax")
has no size limitations.
Linux typically does not come with "tar" but with a tar clone called GNU tar
that by default does not write standard compliant archives but it does not have
a 4.7 GB limit.
Putting tar archives directly on CD/DVD media works, but it may confuse people.
When discussing the best way for putting large files on DVDs, you should take
into account that people who insert a medium that does not get automounted
typically believe that there is a problem with the medium.
This is why I added support for files > 4 GB to mkisofs.
Jörg
How did you "add" support for that? Are you talking about the program
itself or a USE flag?
Dale
:-) :-)
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