Subject: tar truncates file >4GB to zero size when having large sparse region Package: tar Version: 1.14-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
*** Please type your report below this line *** When a tar archive contains a large sparse file (8 GByte file containing 6 GByte of holes) tar creates the archive without complaining but on restore it seems to truncate the sparse file to zero size after having spent a lot of time restoring it. So you can see it growing (slowly) and than suddenly it implodes. The ugliness here: such files are created by emulators like qemu. Users may loose important data. Very dangerous, as you get no warning message when creating a backup of such sparse files with tar. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-6-sis Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages tar depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
