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Re: bsdcpio and bsdtar installed by default



> dd if=/dev/zero of=large_file bs=1m seek=8192 count=1
> tar czf large_file.tgz large_file
> 
> is a trivial test case.

This is a limitation of the 1003.2 ustar format; to quote the opengroup doc:

size
    The size of the file in octets, expressed as a decimal number using digits 
from the ISO/IEC 646:1991 standard. This record shall override the size field 
in the following header block(s). When used in write or copy mode, pax shall 
include a size extended header record for each file with a size value greater 
than 8589934591 (octal 77777777777). 

Which is, effectively, the same exact issue as bin/26521.



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