bsdtar can't handle files >8GB

Bruce Cran bruce at cran.org.uk
Wed Oct 24 15:16:56 PDT 2007


Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Josh Carroll wrote:
>>> tar: Unrecognized archive format: Inappropriate file type or format
>>> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
>>
>> Confirmed in RELENG_7 as well. Interestingly enough, if the file
>> inside the tarball is nothing but zeros (dd if=/dev/zero ...), I don't
>> get this error.  However, it doesn't work either. The resulting file
>> is 0 bytes, rather than 10 GB of \0.
> 
> Try the attached patch, which I think fixes this
> problem.

Thanks, the patch fixes the problem on RELENG_7 on my computer.

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Bruce


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