Re: [Bug-tar] new/old extract problems with 6GB sparse file

[Joerg Schilling]

Joerg Delker <address@hidden> wrote:

> > > This archive was created with tar (1.1[45].x ?) about a month ago
> > > with "tar -cjSf jake.tar.bz2 jake.ntfs", compressing the 6GB ntfs
> > > sparse image into a 1.6GB tar.bz2 file.
> > >
> > > All attempts to recover this 6GB sparse file have failed so far
> > > (either sparsed or zero-filled). So, I did some research on the
> > > list and found several issues with equal or similar cases. However,
> > > they all (?) should have been fixed in cvs already.
> >
> >  Did you try to unpack the archive using star?
> >
> >  ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/
>
> Well, unfortunately more problems with that:
>
> $ star xvjf jake.ntfs.tar.bz2
> x jake_winxp.ntfs 6292304384 bytes, 6162300 tape blocks
> Segmentation fault
>
> Extract the file up to 4335726080 bytes and then throws SEGFAULT.

So it helps you more than GNU tar ;-)

Could you send a stack trace from the core?

> That's with star: star 1.5a67 (i686-pc-linux-gnu).
>
> I tried to compile the latest version (5a74) myself , but that fails with
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/percpu.h: In function '__alloc_percpu':
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/percpu.h:45: error: 'GFP_KERNEL' undeclared
> (first use in this function)
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/percpu.h:45: error: (Each undeclared
> identifier is reported only once
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/percpu.h:45: error: for each function it
> appears in.)
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/percpu.h:45: warning: initialization makes
> pointer from integer without a cast
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/percpu.h:47: warning: incompatible implicit
> declaration of built-in function 'memset'
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> during compile (using linux kernel headers 2.6.15/16).
>
> Any more hints?

The Linux Kernel guys don't like to fix the bugs/incnosistencies in their 
include files. Try to rename /usr/src/linux

Jörg

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