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[Tony Duell]

> 
> der Mouse wrote:
> > 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 

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