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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-stable-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To: Remy Nonnenmacher <remy.nonnenmacher@activnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: Damaged tar files
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Remy Nonnenmacher <remy.nonnenmacher@activnetworks.com> writes:

> Hi there,
>
> While moving big files using tar c | tar x, I found that every time,
> at 30GB sent, the receiving tar outputs a "tar: Damaged tar
> archive". I also checked that a Linux machine also sees a broken
> stream.
>
> It seems that in stable -10 and stable -9, tar creation is broken
> (libarchive update ?).
>
> Have someone seen this before I fill a PR ?

I can't reproduce it on RELENG_9...