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

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Pavel Raiskup <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> 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).

Yes, that's why I plan to include both paxutils and gnulib as git
modules, instead of just cloning them.

> The test case took ~9 minutes on my machine

I will try to add some buffering to genfiles, that could alleviate the
situation a bit.

> 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)'?

Sure, the only problem is that in fact we don't know how long it will
take, and it is rather hard to estimate.  But I agree that some warning
is clearly in place here.

Regards,
Sergey