[ale] tar probelms

[joe at madewell.com (Joe Steele)]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I see, the file size 
stored in an inode is of type 'off_t', which is defined as a 32 bit 
signed value on ix86 platforms.  This would mean the largest file you 
can create is 2 GB (2^31 - 1).  Your archive is bumping against this 
limit.

--Joe

-----Original Message-----
From:	Ken Nagorski [SMTP:kenn at pcintelligent.com]
Sent:	Monday, October 08, 2001 4:29 PM
To:	ale at ale.org
Subject:	[ale] tar probelms

Hi there

I am having trouble creating tarballs over two gigs. I have a couple
servers I want to move and most of them have two gigs worth of vitrual
hosts on them. I would like to be able to do them in one big tarball each
( breasking them up is really lame! ) Does anyone know about this. I have
checked on the web but can't find anything of use. I saw somehting about
compiling tar with a tiny option or somehting but I recompiled on one of
these machines and still had to same problem. 

Any suggestions?

Thank you
Ken



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