Thank you Eric for your quick responses. Much appreciated. With Best Regards, Vijeya
-----Original Message----- From: Eric Blake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 9:39 AM To: Vijeya Aravindan Anbalagan -X (vanbalag - WIPRO at Cisco) Cc: Srinidhi Mandayam Chatrapathy -X (schatrap - WIPRO at Cisco); [email protected] Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] RE: Regarding the limitation of Tar.exe to tar a file greater than 1.99 GB -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Vijeya Aravindan Anbalagan -X (vanbalag - WIPRO at Cisco) on 5/3/2007 10:01 PM: > Thank you Eric again for your quick response. > A last Q: > When you say "large file support", can you let us know the approximate > file size which can be handled. In general, 2GB was the old file limit (31 bits) on 32-bit machines, and for newer architectures (either by large file support on 32-bit machines, or on 64-bit machines), file sizes can be up to 63 bits (more bytes than you will ever have storage for). Within tar, there are some smaller limits; for example, the ustar format is incapable of anything larger than 8GB, because of the way the file size is stored in the tar file. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGOrH484KuGfSFAYARAtcUAJ0QTpZBdJNj2jAqHhdBBKM3VzDgQQCg1EzN BKe7aKZDSuoIof9XppNGZqc= =nDY+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
