On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Sean Walmsley <[email protected]> wrote: > But, if I use the gtar '--ignore-zeros' flag (exists in 1.17 > as well as 1.22/1.23) then all versions keep running forever. > > We're compiling (and running) amcheckdump on a machine with > gtar version 1.22, so perhaps that's the issue? > > Did gtar's default behaviour with respect to zeroes between 1.17 and > 1.22?
Sergey says the default changed in 1.21. Who knew! This requires a fix in amgtar, which is a C program. It's too late for 3.1.2, but the fix will be in Amanda-3.2 (and 3.1.3, if we decide to make that release). Here's the patch: http://github.com/djmitche/amanda/commit/z11678.patch Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
