Andreas Dilger <[email protected]> writes: > Out of curiosity, since I wasn't aware of any 4 GB limitation on > Linux, is this for tar itself, or one of the tar sub-formats, or some > filesystem you are using on Linux?
There shouldn't be any limits that low for Linux or any of the tar formats. My guess is they are probably using FAT32 or similar which has file size limits [1]. Collin [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Maximal_sizes
