Paul Eggert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Do you have any plans to introduce a feature to tar to allow it > > to skip over bad blocks in the archive? As part of my gzip Recovery > > Toolkit, > > I patched tar 1.13.25 to do this, but it was a hack and half. Before > > looking into porting that patch into the new release, I wanted to find > > out if this is something you are working on. It strikes me as a singlularly > > useful feature. Today if tar ever finds something it doesn't like in the > > file, it just reports and error and exits. > > Can you please be more specific, using an example from the behavior of > tar 1.15.1? Tar has gotten better in this area recently, but no doubt > there is room for further improvement.
Hello. I recovered my video card and ran a test on a corrupted backup that I have laying around. tar 1.15.1 dies the minute it hits bad data, the same as all previous verions. Here's the message: -rw------- arenn/users 4613506 2002-09-17 23:17:54 arenn/Mail/sent -rw------- arenn/users 2930421 2002-07-20 20:24:34 arenn/Mail/classpath -rw------- arenn/users 15953 1999-03-23 22:20:34 arenn/Mail/ssowder_utils -rw------- arenn/users 2306213 2002-05-11 11:35:57 arenn/Mail/breakdown /usr/local/src/tar-1.15.1/src/tar: Skipping to next header /usr/local/src/tar-1.15.1/src/tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers /usr/local/src/tar-1.15.1/src/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ -- Aaron M. Renn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/ _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
