Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 14:19:13 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/117909: BSDtar doesn't match files in a tar that gtar does Message-ID: <200711080349.lA83nDAm084743@cain.gsoft.com.au> Resent-Message-ID: <200711080440.lA84e3Y6092181@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 117909 >Category: bin >Synopsis: BSDtar doesn't match files in a tar that gtar does >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Nov 08 04:40:02 UTC 2007 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Daniel O'Connor >Release: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE amd64 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD cain.gsoft.com.au 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Fri Feb 2 17:35:07 CST 2007 root@new-cain.gsoft.com.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >Description: BSDtar doesn't seem to match files that GNUtar does. I have a tape containing gzip'd tar files from which I am trying to recover a directory tree. This works.. gtar -b 128 -zxvf /dev/nsa0 /foo/bar Whereas using bsdtar does not - it matches no files. >How-To-Repeat: I can't repeat this for small test archives but I have seen it happen twice with large (multi gigabyte) archives. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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