On my i386 (actually i686) system, pax seemed to be showing directories with size 2^33 (8589934592) and was adding 2^32 (4294967296) to the size of files.
This bus has knock-on effects for amavisd, and causes it to treat an email containing a (possibly compressed) tar archive as a mail bomb, issuing a warning like this: WARNING: NOT CHECKED FOR VIRUSES (mail bomb?): Exceeded storage quota 183074000 bytes by do_pax... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
