Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 07:50:07 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Andrew Sinclair <syncman@optusnet.com.au> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: 5.3-RC2 tar breaks operation with "(null)" Message-ID: <20041117155007.GA71692@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <419B8175.6060506@optusnet.com.au> References: <419A5AAB.7080409@optusnet.com.au> <20041116213536.GG17125@xor.obsecurity.org> <419B8175.6060506@optusnet.com.au>
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--7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBm3MvWry0BWjoQKURAo2gAJ4wuNgboYx1y8tBFuzI0SHDKGxrCwCgpOEN T714tQfGlp5FuoG9geg4pK8= =sI46 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH--
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