+TAR archiver file size > 4GiB overflow

[bakulapal]

If a file > 4GiB TARed the file size in the TAR file header holds only the part of the file's size <= ULONG_MAX. I guess the file size is stored in a 32 bit unsigned temp variable. The tar header can store up to 36 bit file size.

[ghisler(Author)]

Indeed the TAR function doesn't currently support files >4GB. I will try to add it.

[ghisler(Author)]

This has been fixed in beta 5, please test it! The problem size is between 4 and 8 GB. For larger files, TC stores the number in binary form.

[karlchen]

Hello, Christian.

The problem seems to have been fixed by Total Commander 8.51ß5.
Took tar-file, size 6.32 GB.
Tarred this tar-file a second time, so created a tar-ini-tar archive.
Size of the final tar-file: 6.32 GB (a few K more than the inner file)

If I open the outer tar-file and look at the size of the inner file, it is reported as: 6,787,723,776 bytes.

Environment:
Server 2008 R2 SP1 64-bit
Total Commander 8.51ß5 64-bit

Cheers,
Karl

[ghisler(Author)]

Thanks a lot for testing it!