Bug 916995
| Summary: | Tar is unable to list pax archive containing sparse file of effective size >8GB | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Pavel Raiskup <praiskup> |
| Component: | tar | Assignee: | Pavel Raiskup <praiskup> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | kdudka, ovasik, praiskup |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | tar-1.26-31.fc20 | Doc Type: | Enhancement |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2014-04-06 02:34:54 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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For more info look at bug #516309 Pavel This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle. Changing version to '19'. (As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.) More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19 tar-1.26-31.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tar-1.26-31.fc20 Package tar-1.26-31.fc20: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing tar-1.26-31.fc20' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-4716/tar-1.26-31.fc20 then log in and leave karma (feedback). tar-1.26-31.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |
Steps to reproduce: $ truncate -s 1G testfile $ nl script 1 $count = 8*1024; # 8*1GB 2 while ($count>0) { 3 syswrite(STDOUT, "#" x (1024*1024), 1024*1024); 4 $count--; 5 } $ time perl script >> testfile real 0m40.667s user 0m0.611s sys 0m7.827s $ time tar --posix -cSf test.tar testfile testfile real 2m53.054s user 0m5.566s sys 0m31.147s $ time tar -tf test.tar -rw-rw-r-- praiskup/praiskup 8589935104 2013-03-01 12:35 testfile tar: Skipping to next header tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors real 0m49.055s user 0m32.157s sys 0m4.213s $ echo $? 2 Upstream proposal (not yet fixed upstream): http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2013-01/msg00013.html Any comment is welcomed, this is low priority as the extraction works OK. Pavel