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Re: tar limitations?



A.Sajjad Zaidi wrote:

> Im surprised noone has mentioned file system file size limitation here.
> ext2 has a limit of 2GB. Reiserfs has a work around that problem and the
> limit is raised higher (I cant remeber what, but similar to that of fat32)
> than we will reach any time soon.

I'm quite sure that there is no 2GB limit on ext2 anymore. Kernels
before 2.3 do not support large files IIRC, but 2.4 does. Of course you
need a new enough libc too and the program you are using has to be
compiled with large file support enabled...

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