From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Gce4w-0001EN-Tb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:25:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9P8MSnZ022256; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:22:28 GMT Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.149.33.74]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9P8MRlZ003293 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:22:27 GMT Received: from wstn.prhnet (prh.gotadsl.co.uk [81.6.251.123]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3FB565636; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:17:34 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Anybody else having problems with audio/vidio apps and glibc-2.5? Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:17:35 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200610240900.21742.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> <7573e9640610241025i6052f881o10fa7862a6c893bc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7573e9640610241025i6052f881o10fa7862a6c893bc@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610250817.35747.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 884d23e7-50e3-487e-8b28-700263ba4144 X-Archives-Hash: eb6d14cc219549fb49a570fd5fc6d517 On Tuesday 24 October 2006 17:25, Richard Fish wrote: > By default dar uses an arbitrary-precision integer implementation to > handle archives of basically any size. But it takes more memory and > CPU cycles to use, so you can compile dar with dar32 or dar64 to use > 32-bit or 64-bit integers in place of the infinint. If you use dar32, > you cannot create or restore from any archive larger than 4G, or > backup files larger than 4G, etc. I see - thanks! > I personally use dar64, as that *easily* handles all my data. I'll do the same. I'm not sure yet whether I'll switch from tar yet, but I'll give dar a try. Thanks for the info. -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list