Re: [Bug-tar] File size limits with -S smaller than without

[Roland Paterson-Jones]

Hi Sergey

Sorry for the long delay.

Yes, I have now tried tar 1.15.1 and it displays the same problem.

Thanks
Roland

Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:

> > I have been trying to 'tar c -S' a(n apparently) large (16G) sparse 
> > file, whose actual disk size is about 800Mb.
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> > This is on Linux, Fedora Core 3, kernel 2.6.10.  Tar (GNU tar) 1.14.
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> Have you tried tar 1.15.1?
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> Regards,
> Sergey
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