Damaged tar files
Remy Nonnenmacher
remy.nonnenmacher at activnetworks.com
Thu Feb 13 23:04:14 UTC 2014
On 02/13/14 21:44, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Remy Nonnenmacher <remy.nonnenmacher at activnetworks.com> writes:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> While moving big files using tar c | tar x, I found that every time,
>> at 30GB sent, the receiving tar outputs a "tar: Damaged tar
>> archive". I also checked that a Linux machine also sees a broken
>> stream.
>>
>> It seems that in stable -10 and stable -9, tar creation is broken
>> (libarchive update ?).
>>
>> Have someone seen this before I fill a PR ?
>
> I can't reproduce it on RELENG_9...
>
It needs further investigation since conditions are too specific. I
guess this is transient I have not enough narrowed. Sorry for the noise.
I will be back when I have something and if it needs fix.
Thanks
(oo)
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