Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 09:09:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrew Webster <andrew@fortress.org> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/28820: tar and cpio cannot deal with files > 2GB Message-ID: <200107081609.f68G9RQ53048@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 28820 >Category: bin >Synopsis: tar and cpio cannot deal with files > 2GB >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Jul 08 09:10:01 PDT 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Andrew Webster >Release: 4.3-RELEASE >Organization: PubNIX Inc. >Environment: FreeBSD testpc.fortress.org 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001 jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 >Description: When attempting to tar a larger than 2GB file, tar immediately returns, having created 10240 byte file. tar tvf file.tar reveals that file size is inidcated as negative! >How-To-Repeat: Create >2gb file tar cvf file.tar 2gbfile.data tar tvf file.tar >Fix: Probably 32bit integers used inside tar & cpio when calculating filesizes. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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