Re: File ends unexpectedly at pos XXX when compressing

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> The diagnostic above does not come from minilzip.c, but from line 476 in
> function 'cworker' in create_lz.cc. It happens when the file being read
> and archived ends before its expected size. The reading is performed by
> the function 'readblock', which reads in a loop until the file ends or
> until something fails. So it is probable that the file 'dir/foo' has
> indeed some issue.

Tarlz reads and compresses files in parallel (multithreaded) when creating a 
compressed archive. Therefore the problem may be with parallel accesses to 
the file system. This could explain why it worked when you archived 
'dir/foo' alone. How many processors are in your machine?

Best regards,
Antonio.