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[dmarkh@xxxxxxxxxx (Mark Hounschell)]

Message-ID: <3A28E745.4C6C1F61@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 07:12:53 -0500
From: Mark Hounschell <dmarkh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [SLE] tar ?



Koos Pol wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:43:52 -0600, Gary wrote:
> 
> | On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 06:02:54 -0500
> |                       Mark Hounschell = MH> put this forth:
> |
> |  MH> Does the gnu tar have any filesize limitations like the 2gb limitation
> |  MH> for ext2. I'm looking for a tar to run on an HP (64bit). I want to be
> |  MH> able to backup a 23gb file via tar???
> |
> |  Hi Mark,
> |  As far as I know, the 2 GB file size limitation only applies to ReiserFS.
> |
> 
> If you tar to a device i.s.o a file then this problem does not exist at all,
> because it will be streaming data:
> 
> Do   : tar cf /dev/tape0 /dev/sda
> Don't: tar cf /tmp/sda.bin /dev/sda

I'm trying to write directly to tape not another file.
HP-ux 11 tar says it can't because it's larger than 2gb.
You would think it would work being a 64 bit mach and 64
bit os but it doesn't seem to. That's why I was inquiring
about gnu-tar. I guess I'll just try it and see.

I'm wondering if I can NFS that file system to a SuSE linux
box  and tar that 23gb file off using tar from SuSE 6.4.
Will I even be able to access that file since it's over
our 2gb size limit for Linux.

-- 
Mark Hounschell
dmarkh@xxxxxxxxxx