Re: [Bug-tar] Tar short read

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Kevin Fox <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> Tar starts padding out the file
> with 0's up until the file stat size and returns a message like:
> NET.csv: File shrank by 45427965 bytes; padding with zeros

This means that a read returned 0 bytes, but not all file contents has
been read.  

> I believe in this case, tar should try to fill its remaining buffer
> space with another read

That's what it actually does, but hits EOF.  Are you sure it's not a bug
of the underlying filesystem?

Regards,
Sergey