TAR limit of 2GB

2007-12-25 11:16:00

Hi,

First of all, thanks from all of your prompt responses.

My Sun has Solaris 2.5.1 and the conclusion follows:

1. Solaris 2.5.1 and lower has a limit of 2GB file size on O.S.

2. This limit is implied on almost Unix O.S., excepted SGI xfs and Solaris

2.6 (not beta), as far as I know. Lunix, AIX, BSD, SunOs, which uses ufs

and s5fs has this limit.

Solution for not upgrade O.S.:

Run a GNU Tar version that runs gzip to compress the tar file before write

on HD. (OK)

Once more, thanks to everybody

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