Package: dar Version: 2.3.5-1 Severity: normal
dar doesnt support sparse files and manpage says nothing about that, so you need to do some experimentation to see if dar supports it or not. It will be good to add sparse files support, but until that, please add a note in the manpage saying that we don't have it at the moment. This is probably unnoticeable when you use the compression flag (-z), because big chunks of zeroes are easily compressed, but if you dont use it, then the resulting archive will be big / not sparse. Check this: serge:/tmp# mkdir -p test/files serge:/tmp# cd test/files serge:/tmp/test/files# dd of=sparse-file bs=1024 count=0 seek=10240 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 1.0338e-05 seconds, 0.0 kB/s serge:/tmp/test/files# ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10485760 2007-10-17 13:09 sparse-file serge:/tmp/test/files# du -a -h 0 ./sparse-file 4.0K . serge:/tmp/test/files# cd .. serge:/tmp/test# dar -c archive_without_compression -R files > /dev/null serge:/tmp/test# dar -z -c archive_with_compression -R files > /dev/null serge:/tmp/test# ls -l total 10276 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10297 2007-10-17 13:10 archive_with_compression.1.dar -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10485865 2007-10-17 13:10 archive_without_compression.1.dar drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-17 13:09 files serge:/tmp/test# du -a -h 11M ./archive_without_compression.1.dar 12K ./archive_with_compression.1.dar 0 ./files/sparse-file 4.0K ./files 11M . -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dar depends on: ii libattr1 1:2.4.39-1 Extended attribute shared library ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.3-7 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdar64-4 2.3.5-1 Disk ARchive: Shared library ii libgcc1 1:4.2.1-4 GCC support library ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8e-9 SSL shared libraries ii libstdc++6 4.2.1-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-6 compression library - runtime dar recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
