Re: tar limitations?

[ITSUMI ken-ichi <itsumi@example.com>]

From: Hector Akamine <akamine@example.com>
Subject: tar limitations?
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 18:56:32 +0900
Message-ID: <20010917184942.AE2B.AKAMINE@example.com>

akamine> Hi all,
akamine> 
akamine> Are there any limits in the size of files tar can handle? Does it depend
akamine> on the amount of memory or any other parameter? I'm trying to do
akamine> 
akamine> tar -zcvf tarfile.tgz . > tarlog.txt
akamine> 
akamine> but when the size of the file becomes about 2GB, tar exits with an error
akamine> message ("file too large" or something similar, the message was in
akamine> japanese) (I have enough disk space for the file). It is strange since I
akamine> am almost sure I have been able to create files larger than 2GB before.

It's  upper limit of kernel 2.[02].*  file size.  
If you use kernel version 2.4.* ,you can easily byond such limitation.

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ken