[jira] [Resolved] (COMPRESS-194) Unable to create a TAR file that contains an entry which is >8 GB in size.

["Stefan Bodewig (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-194?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Stefan Bodewig resolved COMPRESS-194.
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       Resolution: Not A Problem
    Fix Version/s: 1.4

The docs of Ant's compress Antlib are not exactly Commons Compress' docs ;-)

If you want to create archives with big files you have to explicitly enable it by setting bigNumberMode to something other than TarArchiveOutputStream.BIGNUMBER_ERROR (which is the default), i.e. you have to chose between posix and star modes.

In the case of the Compress Antlib it means you have to chose a format that supports big files in the tar task, i.e. "star", "gnu" or "posix".
                
> Unable to create a TAR file that contains an entry which is >8 GB in size. 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COMPRESS-194
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-194
>             Project: Commons Compress
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Archivers
>    Affects Versions: 1.4.1
>         Environment: I am using win xp and Red HatLinux 5.1v, but this should be platform independent.
>            Reporter: jessy
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 1.4
>
>
> The common-compress-1.4.1 api says it supports unlimited file sizes for tar and untar operations. [http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/compress/]
> Only Untar operations on a file > 8GB is fixed,
> But creating a tar on a file >8GB is not working.
> When I try to do  " tarOutputStream.putArchiveEntry(archiveEntry); " 
> i get the below exception. 
> java.lang.RuntimeException: entry size '9633985364' is too big ( > 8589934591 )
> 	at org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar.TarArchiveOutputStream.failForBigNumber(TarArchiveOutputStream.java:572)
> 	at org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar.TarArchiveOutputStream.failForBigNumbers(TarArchiveOutputStream.java:557)
> 	at org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar.TarArchiveOutputStream.putArchiveEntry(TarArchiveOutputStream.java:297)
> Looking for a fix .. 

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