It’s documented in the package description, as this is a packaging
issue, not a bug in the program:
.
Note that ACLs and Extended Attributes are not supported.
Also, on Debian GNU/Hurd and Debian GNU/Linux (but not
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD), size of archive members is limited
to the width of the
So it looks as if pax is dead in the water for serious backup use, and
there is no intention of fixing it. This 2 GB limitation should be
posted in the pax man page, at least that it applies to Debian distros
of Linux, if not others.
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↑ got it right. The real problem is that it’s impossible to enable GNU’s
so-called Large File Support, and pax (correctly) uses off_t, which is
broken on GNU/Linux and GNU/Hurd (but not GNU/kFreeBSD) without LFS
enabled.
So
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Is this a regression? If I remember it correctly Pax was working as usual for
me with hardy. Gonna test later.
I don't think the Importance should be set to Wishlist, btw. Nowadays backups
are nearly always 2GB, so this should be fixed asap.
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Pax works fine, until the 2gb mark. Thank you,
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Andreas Gnau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is this a regression? If I remember it correctly Pax was working as usual
for me with hardy. Gonna test later.
I don't think the Importance should be set to Wishlist, btw.
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That is incorrect. Pax supports archives larger than 2gb on both my
Mac and openbsd system.
I ran a search in the debian archive for the pax package and what
happened is the following :
- someone took the pax package from openbsd
- when they ported the package, they wanted to save time and
For reasons unknown to myself, pax does not support archives 2GB in
size. Something about standards compliance, though I don't know what
standards (POSIX?).
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