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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: bin/47538: tar buggy on memory disk partitions
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The following reply was made to PR bin/47538; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/47538: tar buggy on memory disk partitions
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:16:19 +0200

 On 2003-01-27 18:15, Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote:
 > When used on a memory disk (md), tar exhibits buggy behaviour,
 > corrupting the data in subtle ways. [...]
 >
 > Alternatively, you can copy some large amount of data from
 > somewhere:
 >
 > tar cf - -C /usr bin | tar xvf - -C /tmp
 > diff -r /usr/bin /tmp/bin
 
 Can you try a newer version of the 5.X branch?
 It seems that this is fixed in -CURRENT.
 
 $ uname -v
 FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #4: Mon Jan 27 12:46:21 EET 2003 [...]
 $ mount | grep /tmp
 /dev/md10c on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
 $ cd /tmp
 $ tar cf - -C /usr bin | tar xf -
 $ diff -r /usr/bin /tmp/bin
 $
 

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