Re: 2GB filesize limit in tar or linux?

[Oleg Krivosheev <kriol@fnal.gov>]

On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote:

> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 15:43:14 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Steve Hsieh <steveh@eecs.umich.EDU>
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> Subject: 2GB filesize limit in tar or linux?
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> Does anyone know if tar is limited to generating tar files that are 2GB or
> smaller?  Or is this due to some other limitation of linux?  

file offset is 32bit int - thus 2Gb files size limit

OK


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