Re: [Trinux-talk] tar archive limits

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

A couple of questions?

- What type of filesystem are you saving the tar to? If it is ext2
(linux) then you are probably running into the 2GB file limit. I
generally use reiserfs and it is supported in trinux. The kernel module
is available in the linux-fs.tgz package and the tools to create the fs
are in the reiserfs.tgz package

- Which tar are you using. By default trinux uses the busybox tar--which
might have some limitations, not sure. The full GNU tar is in the
fileutil.tgz package.

- mdf

> I'm trying to use Trinux to save some archives (to
> tell the truth, a lot of them) in Windows98SE machines
> as a backup tool. Until today, it just work perfectly,
> even better than other small distribuitions that were
> made to deal with these matters.
> 
> I've tried to create a tar file with a really HUGE
> amount of files to a total of 4.5Gbs. Yes, I know I've
> got hard on this. In my tests, the tar used in Trinux
> has a limit of working with a amount equal to 2Gb
> maximum.
> 
> I was asking myself is there is no way to workaround
> this problem if tar could use the compact option in
> newer versions of tar (the z option).
> 
> The Windows98SE workstations are AMD XP 1.6Ghz with
> 256Mb of memory.
> 
> Any help or idea would be very good.
> 
> Thanks everybody,
> 
> 
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Matthew Franz                 mf...@ci...
Critical Infrastructure Assurance Group (CIAG)
Cisco Systems, Inc.                 Austin, TX