Re: [AVFS] large files utar bug.

dE <[email protected]> Mon, 13 May 2013 08:51:35 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.avfs.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 05/09/13 18:04, Ralf Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2013-03-21 16:04, dE . wrote:
>> I've been using avfs to browse tar archives which're burnt directly to
>> DVDs. It's been working great except for a bugs I've found out recently.
>>
>> If there's a large file in a tar archive (no compression), like 5.5G+; then
>> on opening this archive via avfs, the large file shows weird behaviour.
>>
>> For e.g. in one case it was corrupt, in the other (~9 GB file), it's size
>> was shown as 16EB.
> Thanks for this report. This bug is because of internal variables that
> are still 32-bit large thus overflowing for such large files. I'm
> looking into it to find a solution.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Ralf Hoffmann
>

Thanks!

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