Re: [Bug-tar] Workaround for extracting archives sparsely

[Tim Kientzle]

On Mar 11, 2011, at 1:10 PM, address@hidden wrote:

> Currently neither GNU tar nor star can do that, but the FreeBSD version of
> tar can. It's in the bsdtar package in Debian-based Linux distributions.

Joerg Sonnenberger added that feature a few years ago.

> $ bsdtar --version
> bsdtar 2.6.2 - libarchive 2.6.2

That version is pretty old (Feb 2009); the current stable version is 2.8.4.

> $ bsdtar -v -v -S -x -f test_gnu.tar
> x 2mb_zero.bin: Write request too large
> bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

I just checked and this bug doesn't seem to occur in
2.7, 2.8, or the current development trunk.

Cheers,

Tim Kientzle