On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Matthias Kilian wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 08:44:02PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> > > * tar: File is too long for ustar /fitabackup/server3.tgz *
> [...]
> > > server3.tgz has 10.0Gb.
> >
> > I must be stupid or this error message is not generated by tar. Please
> > provide the EXACT message, and an ls -l of the /fitabackup dir.
>
> It's in /usr/src/bin/tar/tar.c, line 1028.
Ok, I'm stupid, sorry.
>
> > ustar is supposed to handle files up to 64G.
>
> If I don't misinterpret the code, the problem is that the size for
> a 10GB file needs 12 octal digits, which doen't fit 0-terminated
> into hd->size.
Wonder if hd->size should be 0-terminated, but no time to check now.
-Otto
