Hi everybodi!
At work I use a Windows eXPensive machine to gather information and maintain the web site. I needed to bring some files home and I didn't have time to setup a proper archiver, so I used cygnus tar to pack them uncompressed.
I burned this tar dump onto a CD-RW. I didn't just pack everything into Nero and let the Toliet^WJoliet file system take care of it because neither Joliet or Rock Ridge allow files to use the same name even if they are in different paths. Besides, there are file name size limitations... I have not even started yet. don't make me.
I'm using the new tar from 5.3-RC2 to read from the mounted CD-RW. It seems to have a problem with null blocks, halfway through the archive in my case. I got this in the output:
bash-2.05b$ tar -xvf /dvdrom/20041116.tgz
...
x Ocean Care Day/OCD website/Website/OCD Photos/mec cam pictures/000_0075.jpg
x Ocean Care Day/OCD website/Website/OCD Photos/mec cam pictures/Thumbs.db
x Ocean Care Day/OCD website/Website/OCD Photos/Presentation.ppt: (null)
tar: (null)
bash-2.05b$
I remembered that tar uses four blocks of 0x00 to indicate the end of an archive on a sequential device, such as a tape, so I searched the man page for an option to bypass it. No luck. Of all the problems people have with defacto standard optical media, I had to run into a software issue :-\
I might be able to get around it with another tar but surely the one included should be able to work around this. Any ideas?
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