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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 04:51:01PM +0000, Andrew Sinclair wrote:

> <>I checked the changelog for that. There is a minor change to its=20
> handling of failed writes to the archive, which is quite the opposite of=
=20
> what I am trying to do. My disc is unsuprisingly screwed and the=20
> drive/filesystem returns zero filled blocks where it fails to read. I=20
> managed to work around it with dd and gtar:
>=20
>    dd if=3D/dvdrom/20041116.tgz of=3D/home/shared/mec/20041116.tgz
>    gtar --ignore-zero --ignore-failed-read -xvf=20
> /home/shared/mec/20041116.tgz
>=20
> So a PPT and a PNG were garbled. No big deal. Since bsdtar is now the=20
> default Tape ARchiver, shouldn't it include the options of its=20
> predecessor? I would assert --ignore-zero on plain files and allow=20
> --ignore-failed-read at least.

You can (and should) discuss this with the author, but bsdtar isn't
currently intended to be a 100% replacement for gtar, particularly for
the more obscure options.  If you need gtar, you can always use it
instead.

Kris

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