[Bug-tar] record size = x blocks?

[Karl Berry]

Hi Sergey,

With tar 1.22, I'm seeing messages like "Record size = 8 blocks" which
did not occur before.  For example, given this bzipped tar file:
http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.6.tar.bz2

tar 1.22 compiled from original sources with (also personally compiled)
gcc 4.2.4) on an old Red Hat system yields:

$ tar tjf /usr/local/src/dist/subversion-deps-1.5.6.tar.bz2 | head -2
tar: Record size = 8 blocks
subversion-1.5.6
subversion-1.5.6/apr

while the distro's tar (1.14) and previous new GNU tars don't mutter
about it:

$ /bin/tar tjf /usr/local/src/dist/subversion-deps-1.5.6.tar.bz2 |head
subversion-1.5.6
subversion-1.5.6/apr

Thanks,
Karl