Interesting shenanigans

der.hans plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:23:25 -0700 (MST)


Am 10. Jan, 2003 schw=E4tzte Liberty Young so:

> I once tried to use TAR to backup some machines, but i hit the 2GB
> limit. Is there any way i can get tar to overcome that limit?

gnutar shouldn't have that limit. A couple of years ago the kernel had that
limit, but it has since been overcome. tar had it as well, but again, it's
been overcome.

ciao,

der.hans
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