From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 22 19:03:48 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DEA716A508 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:03:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.bluestop.org (muon.bluestop.org [IPv6:2001:41c8:1:548a::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FCC713C4A5 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:03:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.draftnet (unknown [IPv6:2a01:348:10f:1::5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.bluestop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1F2030180 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:03:46 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <471CF3F3.6070803@cran.org.uk> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:03:15 +0100 From: Bruce Cran User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070809) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: bsdtar can't handle files >8GB X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:03:48 -0000 While taking a look at bin/9123 I found that although pax seems to have gained the ability to extract files over 8GB, bsdtar doesn't seem to be able to any more. I'm running 7.0-PRERELEASE from 14th Oct. I created a 12GB file and tarred it up using "tar cvf tmpfile.tar tmpfile". Attempting to extract it using tar gave the following error: > tar xvf tmpfile.tar x tmpfile tar: Unrecognized archive format: Inappropriate file type or format tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. I've not verified that the checksums match, but pax extracted the tar file without any errors, and produced a file of the same size as the original. -- Bruce Cran