On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 03:49:42PM +0000, David Trusty wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In looking at the debug logs, I see that the gnu tar option of
> "--ignore-failed-read" is set.
> 
> Is this a problem?  Would there ever be a time when tar had a
> problem reading a file, and I would not get notified in a report?

Without this option tar would abort its run if a file read failed.
For example, the file was removed, changed during backup, or ??

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