Re: [Bug-tar] --create --verify fails with >4GB files

[Andrew Klaassen]

--- Joerg Schilling
<address@hidden> wrote:

> Andrew Klaassen <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I've run into a problem running 'tar cvvWf' if
> > archive members are larger than 2GB.
> 
> Are yu sure this is not for files >= 8 GB?

Yes.  However, I was wrong in my initial 2GB
statement; the problem appears for files > 4GB.  I've
changed the subject line to reflect this.

Files that don't fail:

5.1G zero.big        ### filled from /dev/zero
2.4G n2.big          ### filled with '2'
2.5G random2.bigfile ### filled from /dev/urandom

Files that fail:

5.0G random3.bigfile ### filled from /dev/urandom
4.9G n1.big          ### filled with '1'
5.5G num.big         ### filled with '1', '2', etc.

Also: The problem does not occur on an amd64 box.

Andrew




 
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