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Subject: Re: [9fans] tarfs & 2GB limit
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:33:28 -0800
From: geoff@collyer.net
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The tar archive format limits archive members to 2=E2=81=B3=E2=81=B3 byte=
s =3D 8GB.
There are 11 octal digits for file size.  The current Plan 9 tar will
complain and refuse to add a file to a tar archive if its size exceeds
8GB-1.

The p9p tarfs is older than the Plan 9 one; in particular, the change
to cast seek's second argument to vlong is already in the Plan 9
tarfs, though not all of the other changes are.