Re: [AVFS] large files utar bug.

[Ralf H. <ra...@bo...>]

Hi,

On 2013-03-21 16:04, dE . wrote:
> I've been using avfs to browse tar archives which're burnt directly to
> DVDs. It's been working great except for a bugs I've found out recently.
> 
> If there's a large file in a tar archive (no compression), like 5.5G+; then
> on opening this archive via avfs, the large file shows weird behaviour.
> 
> For e.g. in one case it was corrupt, in the other (~9 GB file), it's size
> was shown as 16EB.

Thanks for this report. This bug is because of internal variables that
are still 32-bit large thus overflowing for such large files. I'm
looking into it to find a solution.

Best Regards,

Ralf Hoffmann

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