On 2011-12-19, Frank Astier wrote: > I’m trying to use the Apache Tar package (1.8.2) for a Java program > that tars large files in Hadoop. I am currently failing on a file > that’s 17 GB long.
First of all, do yourself a favor and use Commons Compress rather than Ant's tar package. Traditional tar doesn't support anything bigger than 2GB (an octal number of eleven sevens). Ant's tar package doesn't go beyond that. Later versions of tar support workarounds (namely ustar later used by GNU tar and BSD tar aswell) and even later the newer POSIX standard added PAX extension headers to address this (and other things like file names longer than 100 characters). The trunk of Commons Compress supports both ustar and PAX by now but the latest release of it doesn't. I expect the next release of Commons Compress to happen pretty soon, though. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
