> On 08/31/11 07:21, Ederson Ferreira wrote: >> I think you can reproduce it as follows: >> >> 1. pack a large bunch of files (~100Gb) in a tar ball using tar version >> 1.15.1 on a 64-bit machine >> 2. unpack the tar ball in a 32 bit machine using a more recent version (I >> used version 1.22, shipped with Ubuntu Server 10.04) >> >> If you have the same problem as I did, in some random file during the >> extraction that error message would rise, stopping the execution. >> >> I only detected the problem when I installed version 1.15.1 of tar, that >> raise a different error message: tar file contains obsolete base-64 headers. >> After trying on a 64-bit machine, everything gone well.
Is there a file over 2GB in the archive? Tim
