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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:28:24 -0500
To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>,
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From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
Subject: Re: gzip and large files
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At 10:19 PM 8.29.2002 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>"Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> writes:
>
>> A while back I reported on this list about having lockups and crashes using
>> with large tars (over 2GBs). I was also using the "z" switch for gzip at
>> the time. Once I dropped the "z" flag with tar, the problem stopped ....so
>> far and it's been a couple of months now since. Never could pin it on
>> anything else....
>
>Until *very* recently, FreeBSD's tar command didn't support files over
>2GB at all...
>

Yes, I know, but then switched to gtar which does (supposedly) support the
files over 2GB... using the "z" switch, had identical problem. Still using
base system tar without "z" with no problem. Am running 4.5-RELEASE here.

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Administrator

SageOne Net
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jackstone@sage-one.net

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