My apologies for my gross misunderstanding of the tar format - it was based on hearsay from other developers, rather than a trip to the standard. Thanks for the link, Paul.
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Paul Eggert <[email protected]> wrote: > You must be using Solaris /bin/tar for that. I believe it reads past > the two zero blocks. GNU tar doesn't do that. On my Solaris 10 host: Actually, and I'm sorry I confused Joerg on this point, I was using gnutar in all cases. The version I was using on Solaris was just older than 1.21 (1.15.91). > so arguably GNU tar's behavior is more useful. Anyway, Amanda > shouldn't rely on either behavior, obviously, if it wants to be > portable. Well, I'm only looking at the GNU tar support right now - Amanda uses a lot of GNU-specific features. I've added the extra --ignore-zeros argument, and the user is testing it now. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
