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Re: --sparse and holes at the end of files
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: --sparse and holes at the end of files |
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Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:06:52 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Chris Calabrese <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 13:44:40 -0400
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> My analysis is that --sparse is fairly useless in GNU tar,
Have you looked at the latest test version? It fixes some bugs in
handling sparse files that occurred in earlier test versions, such
as the one that you mentioned.
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/