Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:03:15 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: bsdtar can't handle files >8GB Message-ID: <471CF3F3.6070803@cran.org.uk>
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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
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