Unable to extract a file larger than 8GB from a Posix-format tar archive ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: COMPRESS-163 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-163 Project: Commons Compress Issue Type: Bug Components: Compressors Affects Versions: 1.3 Environment: The tar archive used for testing was created by GNU tar, but the problem will occur with any Posix-formatted tar file containing files over 8GB in size. Reporter: John Kodis Priority: Minor Fix For: 1.3 An attempt to read a posix-format tar archive containing a file in excess of 8^11 bytes in size will fail with a "Size out of range" illegal argument exception. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira