From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 19:19:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EA6737B400 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 19:19:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD27F43E42 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 19:19:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7U2J7GL013238 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 22:19:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7U2J6f6013235; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 22:19:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gzip and large files References: <44k7m9n4lo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <3.0.5.32.20020829200154.020e3b90@mail.sage-one.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 29 Aug 2002 22:19:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020829200154.020e3b90@mail.sage-one.net> Message-ID: <44ptw1rsv9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 10 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jack L. Stone" 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... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message