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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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