Joerg, you're right, I think I copied from an old post of mine without double checking, sorry for it. By the way, I was just saying that I remember I was hit by that issue little more than a years ago: I began to correlate things when you cited larger sparse files and multivolumes.
By the way, thanks to point out my obvious mistake. On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Joerg Schilling <[email protected]> wrote: > Enrico Maria Crisostomo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> For as rare as such an event could be, I was affected by this: more >> than once GNU tar couldn't extract it's own files while fortunately >> pax could. I had to back up some big directories with GNU tar on >> Solaris 10 and sometimes it happened that tar exited with exit status >> 0 doing nothing. Archives were created with the E flag. This was truss > > While GNU tar really sometimes is unable to extract it's own archives, your > problem has a different reason: > > You tried to unpack an archives creates by Sun tar that includes Sun specific > extensions to the standard. > > Star is able to unpack this archive, GNU tar is not. > > Jörg > > -- > EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin > [email protected] (uni) > [email protected] (work) Blog: > http://schily.blogspot.com/ > URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
