Re: [Bug-tar] new/old extract problems with 6GB sparse file

[Paul Eggert]

Joerg Schilling <address@hidden> writes:

> Joerg Delker <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Paul Eggert wrote:
>> >    +0001760  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \n
>> >    +0002000  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0
>> >    +*
>> > This is some data that went missing because of the bug.
>
> As star is able to print the right size, this is mostunlikely for our case.

The file's size is stored elsewhere, so even if star prints the right
size that doesn't mean that no data went missing.  GNU tar prints the
right size here too, not that that helps recover data that's not there.

(At least GNU tar doesn't dump core here, like star does. :-)