Re: [Bug-tar] delete/append corruption on busybox tarfiles

[Philip Rowlands]

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:

> Philip Rowlands <address@hidden> ha escrit:
>
> > $ tar --file example.tar --delete etc/alsa/cards/aliases.conf
>
> Does it depend on the location of the member in the archive (at the
> beginning/middle/end)?

Yes, there is a difference. Deleting the first archive member (a 
directory, if it matters), results in an file full of 10240 nulls, which 
corresponds to the default --blocking-factor.

Deleting then appending from the middle causes the previously reported 
junk blocks to be written; it seems repeatable that the final file is 
the source of these blocks.

End is the same as middle.


Cheers,
Phil