Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 23:08:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tar broken for large files? Message-ID: <200205172108.g4HL8xu11980@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20020517143409.88009.qmail@web20806.mail.yahoo.com>
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Erminio Baranzini <aredat@yahoo.com> wrote: > Martin.Kaeske@Stud.TU-Ilmenau.DE wrote in message > news:<20020517094106.A29547_walnut.hh59.local@ns.sol.net>... > > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:59:54PM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote: > > > Its a *very* hacked-at version of GNU tar 1.11.2. > > > > > > It should be hacked at some more to teach it about > > > 2g file sizes. > > > > What about PR gnu/24903? Can this patch fix the problem? > > Why do you not use star ? The tar in FreeBSD's base system should be fixed (either by patching it or by importing a newer gtar, or another tar version like star, if license permits and no features are lost). It is really a shame that FreeBSD's tar cannot handle files larger than 2 Gbyte, even though our filesystem could handle them long before Linux could. Just my 0.02 Euro. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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