It’s documented in the package description, as this is a packaging
issue, not a bug in the program:
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Note that ACLs and Extended Attributes are not supported.
Also, on Debian GNU/Hurd and Debian GNU/Linux (but not
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD), size of archive members is limited
to the width of the "
So it looks as if pax is dead in the water for serious backup use, and
there is no intention of fixing it. This 2 GB limitation should be
posted in the pax man page, at least that it applies to Debian distros
of Linux, if not others.
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↑ got it right. The real problem is that it’s impossible to enable GNU’s
so-called Large File Support, and pax (correctly) uses off_t, which is
broken on GNU/Linux and GNU/Hurd (but not GNU/kFreeBSD) without LFS
enabled.
So this
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Pax works fine, until the 2gb mark. Thank you,
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Andreas Gnau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is this a regression? If I remember it correctly Pax was working as usual
> for me with hardy. Gonna test later.
> I don't think the Importance should be set to Wishlist, btw
Is this a regression? If I remember it correctly Pax was working as usual for
me with hardy. Gonna test later.
I don't think the Importance should be set to Wishlist, btw. Nowadays backups
are nearly always >2GB, so this should be fixed asap.
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My mistake. I was thinking of the 8 GB limit on ustar archives. It looks
like this bug has been stuck upstream at Debian for a year now, due to
library incompatibilities with the OpenBSD version.
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That is incorrect. Pax supports archives larger than 2gb on both my
Mac and openbsd system.
I ran a search in the debian archive for the pax package and what
happened is the following :
- someone took the pax package from openbsd
- when they ported the package, they wanted to save time and omitte
For reasons unknown to myself, pax does not support archives > 2GB in
size. Something about standards compliance, though I don't know what
standards (POSIX?).
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