Hi, There seems to be an interchange problem between star and GNU tar, possibly related to sparse file support. Or perhaps this is just a bug in GNU tar?
I'm using star 1.5 and the problem happened with both GNU tar 1.22 (my Linux distribution's provided version) and 1.25 which I compiled from source. I created an archive using star: $ star -no-fifo -v -c f=archive.tar artype=xustar -numeric -sparse filename The archive created by star was a multiple of 10KB in size; 3,666,155,520 bytes. Both star and GNU tar extract the file from archive.tar correctly. However, after extraction GNU tar reports: tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now That was for a single file. When the archive created using star contains files after the sparse file, on attempting extraction GNU tar extracts the first sparse file only, and gives the above message. The following files are not extracted.
