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Date:      Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:17:48 -0400
From:      "Josh Carroll" <josh.carroll@gmail.com>
To:        "Bruce Cran" <bruce@cran.org.uk>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bsdtar can't handle files >8GB
Message-ID:  <8cb6106e0710222017p133ddccyc973c6ebcd23e270@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <471CF3F3.6070803@cran.org.uk>
References:  <471CF3F3.6070803@cran.org.uk>

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> tar: Unrecognized archive format: Inappropriate file type or format
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

Confirmed in RELENG_7 as well. Interestingly enough, if the file
inside the tarball is nothing but zeros (dd if=/dev/zero ...), I don't
get this error.  However, it doesn't work either. The resulting file
is 0 bytes, rather than 10 GB of \0.

Note that 10 1GB files worked just fine.

Josh



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