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From: Andrew Webster <andrew@fortress.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: tar and cpio cannot deal with files > 2GB
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>Number:         28820
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       tar and cpio cannot deal with files > 2GB
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 08 09:10:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:    Sat Jun 01 17:39:56 PDT 2002
>Last-Modified:  Sat Jun 01 17:39:56 PDT 2002
>Originator:     Andrew Webster
>Release:        4.3-RELEASE
>Organization:
PubNIX Inc.
>Environment:
FreeBSD testpc.fortress.org 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001     jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386 
>Description:
When attempting to tar a larger than 2GB file, tar immediately returns, having created 10240 byte file.
tar tvf file.tar reveals that file size is inidcated as negative!
>How-To-Repeat:
Create >2gb file
tar cvf file.tar 2gbfile.data
tar tvf file.tar
>Fix:
Probably 32bit integers used inside tar & cpio when calculating filesizes.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Andrew <andrew@pubnix.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, andrew@fortress.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/28820: tar and cpio cannot deal with files > 2GB
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 22:47:45 -0400

 I have investigated TAR code in create.c.
 Problem is that counter is a 32 bit long (save_totsize) see line 198.
 Should be of type off_t to deal with numbers > 2,147,483,647
 
 Probably similar problem with cpio.
 
 --
   Andrew
 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->mjacob 
Responsible-Changed-By: mjacob 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Oct 1 21:52:52 PDT 2001 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I'll take it. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=28820 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: mjacob->freebsd-bugs 
Responsible-Changed-By: mjacob 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Oct 20 18:34:17 PDT 2001 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
give back to whomever has more time to do the actual right thing 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=28820 

From: Marc Perisa <perisa@porsche.de>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc: andrew@fortress.org, mjacob@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/28820: tar and cpio cannot deal with files > 2GB
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 02:35:38 +0200

 Please close this PR. It is better described at
 
 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=gnu/24903
 
 Thanks
 
 Marc
 
 
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: cjc 
State-Changed-When: Sat Jun 1 17:37:58 PDT 2002 
State-Changed-Why:  
Several other PRs deal with this same problem, e.g. 24903. 
>Unformatted:
