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 1KFWw1-0001QN-1X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:17:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F247E03AD; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 16:17:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailgwb1.fraunhofer.de (mailgwb1.fraunhofer.de [153.96.87.18]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2AF7E03AD for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 16:17:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailgwb1.fraunhofer.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailgwb1.fraunhofer.de[host mailgwb1] (8.14.2+/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m66GHrfi011605 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 18:17:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pluto.fokus.fraunhofer.de (pluto.fokus.fraunhofer.de [195.37.77.164]) by mailgwb1.fraunhofer.de (8.14.2+/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m66GHriO011597 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 18:17:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from EXCHSRV.fokus.fraunhofer.de (bohr [10.147.9.231]) by pluto.fokus.fraunhofer.de (8.13.7/8.13.7) with SMTP id m66GHqX6018046 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 18:17:53 +0200 (MEST) Received: from rigel ([10.147.65.195]) by EXCHSRV.fokus.fraunhofer.de with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 18:17:53 +0200 Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:17:52 +0200 From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files Message-ID: <4870f030.uRiPakRAW7lXbKp3%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <486D97E4.3070305@bellsouth.net> <20080706135046.50dee9a8@ilievnet.com> <4870D2CA.8060403@bellsouth.net> <200807061644.02130.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <200807061644.02130.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: nail 11.22 3/20/05 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 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Jul 2008 16:17:53.0075 (UTC) FILETIME=[D796C030:01C8DF83] X-Fraunhofer-Email-Policy: accepted Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 5e1db063-1019-4a52-8515-e6d0014964da X-Archives-Hash: 8164e2037651352c5ddfa68b48087bc5 Volker Armin Hemmann 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=20 > 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, quoting a troll like fefe is not a good idea too. The page is full = of=20 nonsense. OK, it at least mentions a 21 GB tar archive but not a tar arch= ive with a 21 GB file inside. The historic tar archive format supports single files up to 8 GB in tar=20 archives. Since POSIX.1-2001, the extended tar archive format (called "pa= x") has no size limitations. Linux typically does not come with "tar" but with a tar clone called GNU = tar=20 that by default does not write standard compliant archives but it does no= t have=20 a 4.7 GB limit. Putting tar archives directly on CD/DVD media works, but it may confuse p= eople. When discussing the best way for putting large files on DVDs, you should = take=20 into account that people who insert a medium that does not get automounte= d=20 typically believe that there is a problem with the medium. This is why I added support for files > 4 GB to mkisofs. J=F6rg --=20 EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J=F6rg Schilling D-13353 = Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) =20 schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogs= pot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/s= chily --=20 gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list