How big can a tar file get?

John Almberg jalmberg at identry.com
Mon Apr 6 17:22:43 PDT 2009


>
> With the default blocksize (16384) UFS2 can deal with files up to  
> 128TB.
> However traditional tar only supports up to 8GB while the newer ustar
> format goes up to 64GB.  It seems that at least on 7.x tar creates
> ustar archives by default

Well, I'm already past 10GB, so good thing I'm on 7.1.



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