I'm trying to compress a certain number of files from a cifs mount to a xfs mount, but cannot do it when the total size of the files is bigger than 2GB.
Is there any limitation for above 2GB?
OS is SLES 64bit
The files are maximum 1MB, so there are aprox. 2000 files to compress
The cifs is in a Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise server
The xfs is a 1TB logical volume from a local raid with enough free space
I'm trying the following:
I tried using tar, cpio, pax, gnutar and always I get the same output error:
tar: List of arguments is too large
pax: List of arguments is too large
I also tried with gzip, without compression, and without split...
When the number or size of the files to be compressed is below 2GB or below 2000 files, it works perfectly.
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