Re: tar drops files on errors (silently)?

[Paul Eggert]

> From: address@hidden (Parity Error)
> Date: 9 Nov 2002 09:58:10 -0800
> 
> I tried to tar a dir from a cd (this has some difficulty in reading)...
> 
> When i untar the file i find that more than 100 files are missing <--
> these files where never reported by tar at all. After this i found out
> that an entire dir was missed, so i cd'd into that dir and did a tar
> -cvf - . | tar -tvf - | wc -l, and all the files appear to be getting
> properly tarred.. But why did it miss them the first time ??

If the CD is flaky, anything can happen.  Perhaps an I/O error caused
the first tar to misread that directory.