Damaged tar files

[Eitan Adler]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Remy Nonnenmacher
<remy.nonnenmacher at activnetworks.com> wrote:
> 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 ?


Is this true for all large files or just some?  Does it stop at a
deterministic point in each file?  If multiple files are affected does
it stop at the same byte count for each file, or does it stop around
the same point?

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Eitan Adler