[ale] tar probelms

[Brian J. Dowd]

Good Call, Joe.
Ken could move to Red Hat Enterprise edition which allows 64 bit file I/O...
and if he's got a file size which needs more than that I recommend
http://www.cray.com :-)
-Brian


> 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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