From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 7 21:18:31 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA03791 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:18:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA03785 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:18:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA22408; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:47:29 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id PAA96498; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:47:36 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:47:36 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: David Kelly Cc: Aaron Gifford , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Writing a HUGE file to tape (SCSI, a DLT7000) Message-ID: <19990108154736.L92409@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199901080349.VAA46613@nospam.hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199901080349.VAA46613@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 09:49:24PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 7 January 1999 at 21:49:24 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > Greg Lehey writes: >> On Wednesday, 6 January 1999 at 18:33:15 -0600, David Kelly wrote: >>> To write a tar file larger than 2G on an SGI system requires a special >>> option to SGI's tar. Wonder if FreeBSD's GNU tar has a 2G filesize >>> limit? >> >> No. > > I didn't word things right. Correct wording is, "To write a file larger > than 2G with tar on an SGI system..." The way I said it before suggests > the tar archive itself was limited to 2G without the special option. Well, in fact the problem isn't with tar, it's with System V's file systems, which still limit files to 2 GB, and usually even the file systems can't be larger, though I believe there are exceptions. Of course, this means that having files larger than 2 GB limits their portability. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message