Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:16:49 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> Cc: josh.carroll@gmail.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsdtar can't handle files >8GB Message-ID: <471FC451.6090200@cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <471DCED7.2020500@freebsd.org> References: <471CF3F3.6070803@cran.org.uk> <8cb6106e0710222017p133ddccyc973c6ebcd23e270@mail.gmail.com> <471DCED7.2020500@freebsd.org>
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Tim Kientzle wrote: > Josh Carroll wrote: >>> 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. > > Try the attached patch, which I think fixes this > problem. Thanks, the patch fixes the problem on RELENG_7 on my computer. -- Bruce
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