Re: [Bug-tar] mystic message: tar: bdeb60x64/bdeb60x64.vmdk: File shrank by 7579713536 bytes

[Pavel Raiskup]

On Wednesday 03 of December 2014 16:32:30 Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> 
> > This message is wrong because it doesn't say is my archive OK or not.
> 
> That depends a great deal upon what you mean by OK.  It is OK in the
> sense it can be extracted.  The file in question was altered by a
> third party and tar had to cope with that change.

Alexander, also the docs worth mentioning:
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Race-conditions.html

Pavel