bsdtar can't handle files >8GB

Tim Kientzle kientzle at freebsd.org
Tue Oct 23 03:37:12 PDT 2007


Josh Carroll wrote:
>>tar: Unrecognized archive format: Inappropriate file type or format
>>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

I think I've found the source of this; I recently put in
support for a bunch of new GNU extensions and it looks like
I confused some of the size tracking in the process.

I'll have a fix soon.

Thanks for finding this!

Tim Kientzle




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