On Sep 26, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Kevin Fox wrote: > I see tar reading out of a file in 10240 byte chunks at a time with an > initial smaller read. On the read that would return the 32m byte, I see > a short read out of the file system as expected. I never see another > read to the file system by tar though. Tar starts padding out the file > with 0's up until the file stat size and returns a message like: > NET.csv: File shrank by 45427965 bytes; padding with zeros >
Try the -B option to tar. Tim
