Date: 29 Aug 2002 22:19:06 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gzip and large files Message-ID: <44ptw1rsv9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020829200154.020e3b90@mail.sage-one.net> References: <44k7m9n4lo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <3.0.5.32.20020829200154.020e3b90@mail.sage-one.net>
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"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... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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