From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KFWfq-0008Fp-FA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:01:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD7D1E0423; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 16:01:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94156E0423 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 16:01:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 0555420A54A for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 18:01:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBF7F20A549 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 18:01:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [139.174.197.94] (account wevah HELO energy.localnet) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.4) with ESMTPSA id 35640771 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:01:11 +0200 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 18:01:00 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.52 (Linux/2.6.26-rc8benchmark; KDE/4.0.83; x86_64; ; ) References: <486D97E4.3070305@bellsouth.net> <200807061644.02130.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <4870E26D.9050400@bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: <4870E26D.9050400@bellsouth.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807061801.01453.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.4 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: d3cd3988-4574-4015-94b7-3431f678edba X-Archives-Hash: c468b35be9dae35f5ee18a7c0861cf72 On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dale wrote: > >> Well, it seems tar can not handle 4.7Gb files any way. I'm not sure why > >> but it seems happy with 2.2Gb files. Anybody know about the upper > >> limits on tar? > > > > emm. It should be handle to at least 8gb. And since I use tar to write to > > my 280gb tapelib ... and this guy used a 21gb tarball for his tests: > > http://bulk.fefe.de/lk2006/bench.html > > > > you are doing something wrong. > > Well, Kdar does the making part. I'm not doing anything fancy when > unpacking it but when I do it with it set to 4.7Gb, I get a error about > half way though unpacking. I can't recall the error at the moment but I > should be able to reproduce it if needed. > > I was thinking tar could handle huge files which is what confuses me. > > Dale > > :-) tar can handle single files of 8gb and archives of enourmous sizes. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list