19 May
2005
19 May
'05
4:04 p.m.
der Mouse wrote:
Is this really an issue for archiving boot disks and their metadata? tar
will hand 8 gigabyte archives (IIRC). A boot disk is around 1 megabyte.
That's a hack of a lot of extra space for metadata :-)
-tony
You raise a good point. I'll have to add
support to my tar for file
sizes over 8G.
But then it won't be tar. You'll be creating files that can only be extracted
with your version.
The solution is an archive format that handles nearly ludicrous sizes, such as