This is correct. It depends on what c lib that tar was compiled with. See Tom's Root Boot website for an explanation of this. He distributes 2 versions of dd, one has Large File System support while the other does not. He goes into detail of the differences.
http://www.toms.net/rb/ On Wednesday 20 November 2002 11:04 am, Christoph Scheeder wrote: > Hi, > > Galen Johnson schrieb: > > Jon LaBadie wrote: > > [....] > > > It might also be pointed out that 'tar' has this 2 Gb limitation, unless > > they fixed it in 1.13.25. I've run headlong into it before. > > > > =G= > > i think this is not correct. i've handeled archives > 2gb with tar 1.12. > If you are on a filesystem with a 2 gb limit, your libc has a 2g Limit or > the system your tar was compiled on had a 2gb limit, yes then tar too has > the 2GB problem when reading/writing from/to hd. > > This was true for most intel-linux systems until auround the middle of this > year. (don't remember exact time when it went away) > Christoph