bsdtar needs --ignore-zero & --ignore-failed-read
Tim Kientzle
kientzle at freebsd.org
Mon Nov 29 21:20:30 PST 2004
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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