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 omitted a certain library - pax then was patched by the debian team with the changes never making it into the main pax tree at openbsd.org - as a result of the patching and/or incomplete porting and lack of interest from the pax team, pax on debian and now ubuntu, does not support archives larger than 2gb. What needs to be done is either - port pax from the openbsd archive again, and lose changes - hack pax, as we have it. On 8/18/06, Mark Reitblatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?). > > ** Changed in: pax (Ubuntu) > Importance: Untriaged => Wishlist > > -- > Unable to create files larger than 2GB > https://launchpad.net/bugs/56764 > -- Andrei Faust Tanasescu -- Unable to create files larger than 2GB https://launchpad.net/bugs/56764 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
