ma...@clara.co.uk wrote:
> 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
If GNU tar archives sparse files, it creates archives that violate the
POSIX structuring conventions for TAR archives.
If you tell star to create a GNU tar archive, it creates a TAR archive with the
same structuring defetcs as GNU tar expects.
If you tell star to create a POSIX compliant archive, it however creates an
archive that follows the POSIX TAR structuring conventions and that as a result
will not be understood by GNU tar.
Jörg
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