Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 20:22:40 -0400 From: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How big can a tar file get? Message-ID: <A1184E12-E991-4FF8-8FA8-1C0F44262931@identry.com> In-Reply-To: <20090407005413.4c12d2b2@gluon.draftnet> References: <30D89A0A-A607-4513-AEA2-DB16A1609BDD@identry.com> <20090407005413.4c12d2b2@gluon.draftnet>
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> > With the default blocksize (16384) UFS2 can deal with files up to > 128TB. > However traditional tar only supports up to 8GB while the newer ustar > format goes up to 64GB. It seems that at least on 7.x tar creates > ustar archives by default Well, I'm already past 10GB, so good thing I'm on 7.1.
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