Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:16:03 +0200 From: Robin Gruyters <r.gruyters@yirdis.nl> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unrecognized archive format with RELENG_6_2 and RELENG_6 Message-ID: <20070604101603.f0ki85am800wso0k@server.yirdis.nl> In-Reply-To: <200706020852.21208.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <20070601114047.z6qgi686os4ogw4o@server.yirdis.nl> <200706012334.33673.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20070601160948.wcee59gu04okswo4@server.yirdis.nl> <200706020852.21208.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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This message is in MIME format and has been PGP signed. --=_2ymv5iycwoys Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Quoting Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>: > On Friday 01 June 2007 23:39, Robin Gruyters wrote: >> > What happens if you try >> > tar -b 128 -tf /dev/sa0 >> >> Same problem. >> >> > What did you upgrade from? Some gnutar using system I guess? (5.x >> > or 4.x?) >> >> I'd upgraded from FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 > > OK. > Can you read the archive as a normal file from the tape? eg dd > if=3D/dev/sa0 of=3D/tmp/foo > > If so does it work? Are you getting errors reading from the drive, or > just the tar file is broken? > Nope, it doesn't work. # dd if=3D/dev/sa0 of=3D/data3/tmp/bla dd: /dev/sa0: Input/output error 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.005972 secs (0 bytes/sec) # When setting the correct blocksize, it does work: # dd if=3D/dev/sa0 of=3D/data3/tmp/bla bs=3D65536 count=3D32 32+0 records in 32+0 records out 2097152 bytes transferred in 9.698233 secs (216241 bytes/sec) # This morning I have revert libarchive (src/lib/libarchive) and tar =20 (src/usr.bin/tar) back to RELENG_6_1 and surprisingly (or maybe not) =20 it works fine now. Maybe tar doesn't use the -b option when listing the content? (-t) Kind regards, Robin Gruyters Network and Security Engineer Yirdis B.V. I: http://yirdis.com P: +31 (0)36 5300394 F: +31 (0)36 5489119 --=_2ymv5iycwoys Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: PGP Digital Signature Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGY8pDLh3hlgHmc7MRAvILAKC1rl4ly9oATlcC/UV3nM5gUkMzpQCgwz/9 mMzpl+8WkLUU+i/+hKmDews= =lDh8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=_2ymv5iycwoys--
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