tar limitations?

[Hector Akamine <akamine@example.com>]

Hi all,

Are there any limits in the size of files tar can handle? Does it depend
on the amount of memory or any other parameter? I'm trying to do

tar -zcvf tarfile.tgz . > tarlog.txt

but when the size of the file becomes about 2GB, tar exits with an error
message ("file too large" or something similar, the message was in
japanese) (I have enough disk space for the file). It is strange since I
am almost sure I have been able to create files larger than 2GB before.

Thanks in advance