Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago
This is because of the limitations of the tar format.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_%28computing%29
"This gives a maximum file size of 8 gigabytes on archived files. To overcome
this limitation, star in 2001 introduced a base-256 coding that is indicated by
setting the high-order bit of the leftmost byte of a numeric field. GNU-tar and
BSD-tar followed this idea."
It doesn't warn you when you go over this limit, nor implement the new addition
to allow files that are larger.
Original comment by rveac...@gmail.com
on 27 Sep 2013 at 6:59
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
ahs...@gmail.com
on 29 Jul 2013 at 9:16