Re: broken pipes in tar on large files

Dean Gaudet (dgaudet-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org)
Fri, 28 Nov 1997 14:30:10 -0800 (PST)

I see similar things with ssh remote 'tar czf - foo', where remote is
running 2.0.32-pre6. Doing "tar czBf - foo" fixes it... but that's
something new, it wasn't required when I had 2.0.31-pre10 on remote.

Dean

On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, sheldon newhouse wrote:

> Hi,
> I am running RH-4.2, kernel 2.0.32, and an AHA-2940UW. I noticed that
> using tar to copy large directories (>180MB) to other places ends
> always with a 'broken pipe.' Anyone else see this? Is there a fix? Other
> ideas?
>
> TIA,
> -sen
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