I'm not sure how stable -current is.. but supposedly a 1.3.1 patchset is going
to be released very soon which fixes a number of bugs.

You didn't say in your post exactly what your problem was. Is the kernel
panicing while tarring large files?

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Tim Rightnour    -  root@garbled.net
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