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Re: [Bug-tar] POSIX_ARCHIVE & big sparse files (>= 2^33 B excluding hole
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Pavel Raiskup |
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Re: [Bug-tar] POSIX_ARCHIVE & big sparse files (>= 2^33 B excluding holes) |
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Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:17:04 +0100 |
Hi Paul,
> Thanks for catching that bug. We don't yet have a facility
> for large test cases, so I guess we can put that on the todo list.
I agree (this is probably about paxutils?).
> Your patch doesn't feel quite right, as there's a similar
> issue in pax_dump_header_0, and also there's a problem if
> the shrunken size is less than 8 GiB but the real size is not.
> I pushed the following patch instead: does it fix things for you?
Of course, it fixes the issue. Thanks for this!
Pavel