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Date:      Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:10:02 GMT
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/9123: pax can't read tar archives that contain files > 4GB
Message-ID:  <200710221910.l9MJA2u5008901@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/9123; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To: bug-followup@freebsd.org,  rtm@eecs.harvard.edu
Cc: kientzle@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/9123: pax can't read tar archives that contain files > 4GB
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:02:39 +0100

 I've just tested this on 7.0-PRERELEASE from 14th October.  After 
 creating a 12GB file and tarring it up using bsdtar, pax was able to 
 extract it and produce a file of the same size as the original.
 
 --
 Bruce Cran



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