Re: [Bug-tar] tar-1.14.90 bug with multi-volume (M) archives

[Joerg Schilling]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The creation of multi-volume archives exhibits a bug that causes those
> files that cross a volume boundary to be extracted with errors.
>
> On a device with physical size 61718528 (= octal 353340000 = hex 3ADC000)
> bytes I used "tar cvfM [many-files]". The result is saved as volume01,
> volume02, ... The result in this case is that
>
> $ tar tvf volume01
> ...
> -rw------- bruno/user  1904897 2003-03-28 14:59:15 WinCvs120_src_shared.zip
> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
> $ tar tvf volume02
> M--------- 0/0          543489 1970-01-01 01:00:00 
> WinCvs120_src_shared.zip--Continued at byte 1361408--
> ...
>
> After extracting these volumes, the file WinCvs120_src_shared.zip has the
> correct size, but incorrect contents, and 'tar' exits with an error:

It would  be of interest if this is just one of the GNU tar multi volume 
extract 
errors or if the bug is caused by the multi volume creation process.... 

What happens when you try to use star

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/aplha/ 

to extrat the multi volume archives into one file?

Jörg

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