Re: [Bug-tar] gnu tar does not recover when blocks in archive are defective

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Soeren Sonnenburg <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> I was using tar 1.19 and trying to extract a .tar.bz2 which was
> defective. So I had to manually use bzip2recover ending up with several
> thousands of .bz2 files of which most could be decompressed. Now
> concatenating all the files (correct order!) lead to a ``recovered.tar''
> archive. However when trying to extract the archive tar fails as soon as
> the first defective header is found.

How exactly does it fail? Normally it displays the `Skipping to next header'
diagnostics and attempts to read the next header. Did it abort immediately?

> PS: I tried to file this as a bug report but gnu tar does not accept
> bug reports (bug or feature?).

How did you do that?

Regards,
Sergey