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

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 12:12 +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> 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?

Yes, it displays the skipping to next header, complains about some file
time being wrong and then aborts although only ~20% of the file are
read.

> > 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?

Through https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/tar (after logging in). Submit
a new item is crossed out.

Soeren