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| DATE | 2014-02-28 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] max size of tar
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On 02/27/2014 11:27 PM, Ron Guerin wrote:
> On 02/27/2014 11:15 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
>> this is not correct in the info tar manual?
>>
>>
>> posix
>> Archive format defined by POSIX.1-2001 specification. This is the
>> most flexible and feature-rich format. It does not impose any
>> restrictions on file sizes or file name lengths. This format is
>> quite recent, so not all tar implementations are able to handle it
>> properly. However, this format is designed in such a way that any
>> tar implementation able to read `ustar' archives will be able to
>> read most `posix' archives as well, with the only exception that
>> any additional information (such as long file names etc.) will in
>> such case be extracted as plain text files along with the files it
>> refers to.
>>
>> This archive format will be the default format for future versions
>> of GNU `tar'.
> According to everything I've read, no, that is not correct. And yet
> there it is. So I dunno.
>
> - Ron
>
>
ruben-at-www:/mnt> ls -alt
total 305130045
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 312453160960 Feb 28 05:16 archive_02_27_14
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1344 Feb 27 20:57 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Feb 20 06:45 ..
ruben-at-www:/mnt> file archive_02_27_14
archive_02_27_14: POSIX tar archive
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