Re: [Bug-tar] Incorrect listing of sparse files with more than 8G of real data

[Pavel Raiskup]

On Friday 07 of November 2014 11:58:20 Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
> 
> > correct thread, but better link is:
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-tar%40gnu.org/msg03910.html
> > .. which iterated to:
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-tar%40gnu.org/msg03917.html
> > 
> > The last patch deals with realsize/size once *all* extended headers are
> > decoded - thus the order of 'GNU.sparse.realsize' vs. 'size' extended
> > haders does not matter.
> 
> I applied your patch along with a testcase for it.  Thanks!

Thanks, especially for the test case and paxutils's genfile fix
(to test this, you must git pull the paxutils subdirectory, ./bootstrap
doesn't do it).

The test case took ~9 minutes on my machine however it is worth having it
there as it is the first testcase checking also _creating_ of archive
having so big sparse files (not the --list check only).  And users still
can do:

  $ make check TESTSUITEFLAGS='-k !sparse05'

Could we install the warning similar to "Files removed while archiving"
group?  Something like '(ca. 10 minutes)'?

Pavel