Re: [Bug-tar] --create --verify fails with >2GB files

[Paul Eggert]

Andrew Klaassen <address@hidden> writes:

> I've run into a problem running 'tar cvvWf' if archive
> members are larger than 2GB.

Does the problem occur if any members are larger than 2GB, or only in some
cases?

I couldn't reproduce the problem with a simple test case, on Debian stable
with tar 1.16.1 that I compiled.  Here's what I did.  What happens when
you try the same thing with your 'tar'?

$ echo foo | dd bs=1 seek=2G of=big
4+0 records in
4+0 records out
4 bytes (4 B) copied, 0.00105214 s, 3.8 kB/s
$ ls -l big
-rw-r--r-- 1 eggert eggert 2147483652 May  8 09:42 big
$ tar cvvWf tar big
-rw-r--r-- eggert/eggert 2147483652 2007-05-08 09:42 big
Verify -rw-r--r-- eggert/eggert 2147483652 2007-05-08 09:42 big
$ rm big tar