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Re: [Bug-tar] POSIX_ARCHIVE & big sparse files (>= 2^33 B excluding hole
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Pavel Raiskup |
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Re: [Bug-tar] POSIX_ARCHIVE & big sparse files (>= 2^33 B excluding holes) |
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Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:37:52 +0100 |
On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 09:26 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 02/21/13 05:37, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> > Paul, what do you think?
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> Sorry, I've lost context. Is there a test case illustrating
> the bug that this fixes?
Just prepare sparse file of effective size > 8GB and try to create --posix
tarball (with -S). Then try to list the archive - it will fail.
Pavel