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mafintosh / tar-stream

tar-stream is a streaming tar parser and generator.
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8GB Limit? #75

Closed dandanknight closed 6 years ago

dandanknight commented 7 years ago

Can you confirm (or not) that there is an 8GB limit (per file) for TAR creation with the implementation of TAR that you use (ustar is it?)

If so, is there any way round this that you know of? Or another library i could use?

Many thanks

diamondap commented 6 years ago

You can add files larger than 8GB into a tar archive with this library using pax headers. It just wasn't documented. See the code snippet at https://github.com/mafintosh/tar-stream/pull/78.

piranna commented 6 years ago

Maybe it would be good to add it to a FAQ section in the readme.