RE: [Bug-tar] A couple of requests on tar

[Chiu, PCM (Peter)]

Dear Sergey,

Thanks again for showing me how to retrieve a file spanning across two
volumes.

Did a quick test to retrieve two volumes and the -M -f -f switches do
work beautifully.

Then notice that if one 1 volume is specified, it stops as soon as it
detects
the first file is a continuation from a previous volume.

that is
tar -xv -M -f ../2005.tar-22 ../2005.tar-23  
- works, skip first continuation file in 2005.tar-22, but restores the
rest in 2005.tar-22 and 2005.tar-23.

# tar -xv -M -f ../2005.tar-23
2005/12/MER_RR__2PNPDK20051216_094412_000025902043_00251_19844_4974.N1
tar:
2005/12/MER_RR__2PNPDK20051216_094412_000025902043_00251_19844_4974.N1:
Cannot extract -- file is continued from another volume
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: A lone zero block at 89191
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
# ls
#

ie. no file is restored.

I intend to use a volume size of 500G, so it will be useful to be able
to retrieve a single volume
by itself even when the first file is a continuation from the previous
volume.

But so far very good already, many thanks again.

Peter