Re: large file support

[Paul Eggert]

"Craig Rasmussen" <address@hidden> writes:

> I have a linux system with large file support and wanted to have tar
> handle large files.  I didn't see any option to making tar to ensure
> this.  Are there any?

It's a build-time option, and is enabled by default in
sufficiently-recent versions of 'tar'.

> I am specifically wondering about the format of the tar header
> fields such as size and time.

They don't change, and impose limits independently of the large-file
limit.