From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, geoff@collyer.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] tarfs & 2GB limit
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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:03:44 -0600
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good point. i saw that problem and brain farted.
using the proper member of the union is also much better 
than the cast-o-rama.

- erik

geoff@collyer.net writes

| 
| Please make that
| 
| 	union {
| 		void*	addr;
| 		uvlong	blockno;
| 	};
| 
| so that archives larger than 2TB can be made to work.