On Mar 11, 2011, at 1:10 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Currently neither GNU tar nor star can do that, but the FreeBSD version of > tar can. It's in the bsdtar package in Debian-based Linux distributions.
Joerg Sonnenberger added that feature a few years ago. > $ bsdtar --version > bsdtar 2.6.2 - libarchive 2.6.2 That version is pretty old (Feb 2009); the current stable version is 2.8.4. > $ bsdtar -v -v -S -x -f test_gnu.tar > x 2mb_zero.bin: Write request too large > bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. I just checked and this bug doesn't seem to occur in 2.7, 2.8, or the current development trunk. Cheers, Tim Kientzle
