On 03/12/2014 01:47 AM, d.b.e wrote:
I have an issue with tar, it seems tar manages to create archive of files larger than 8GB how ever, the header becomes curropted and thus tar is unable to extract the archive.
I cannot reproduce the bug with tar 1.27.1 (which I built for Fedora 20 x86-64). Can you please give a recipe? Here's how I tried:
$ echo x | dd of=big obs=1GiB seek=8 0+1 records in 0+1 records out 2 bytes (2 B) copied, 0.000222437 s, 9.0 kB/s $ ls -l big -rw-r--r--. 1 eggert eggert 8589934594 Mar 12 10:52 big $ tar -cf big.tar big $ tar -tvf big.tar -rw-r--r-- eggert/eggert 8589934594 2014-03-12 10:52 big $ mkdir d $ (cd d && tar -xvf ../big.tar) big $ cmp big d/big $
