Daniel Rock <sola...@ddcd.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> can anyone confirm my observations with the attached test script?
>
> pax corrupts files if they contain more than 57 holes in it.
>
> I just found out today by accident after copying a large backup file. I was
> able to reproduce the bug on Solaris 10 and snv133, on UFS and ZFS.
>
> Is pax in the closed bins? I couldn't find its source code.
Interesting.... as pax does not support sparse files, I asumed that this
would also be true for the copy mode. It seems however that pax does not
do a good job for sparse files. While star is able to correctly copy sparse
files, pax is e.g. unable to copy a sparse file correctly if it ends in a hole.
I recommend
star -copy -sparse -C from todir
Jörg
--
EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni)
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog:
http://schily.blogspot.com/
URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
_______________________________________________
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
