Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:20:22 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: Andrew Sinclair <syncman@optusnet.com.au> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: bsdtar needs --ignore-zero & --ignore-failed-read Message-ID: <41AC0316.1090201@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <41AAF26E.8090101@optusnet.com.au> References: <41AAF26E.8090101@optusnet.com.au>
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Andrew Sinclair wrote: > > I found this out when attempting to extract an archive from a CD-RW. > It had a few bad blocks ... I was able to work > around it with gtar and the --ignore-zero and --ignore-failed-read > options but I could not find an equivalent solution for bsdtar. > > My suggestion is to include these options in libarchive and to assert > --ignore-zero in bsdtar by default on plain files ... Thanks for the suggestion; I'll see about adding these. I am reluctant to assert these by default, however. Not because I expect anyone to deliberately append anything, but because I expect there to be tar archivers that append garbage to fill out the final block. Tim
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