Re: [Bug-tar] ftruncate vfat

[Peter Vrabec]

On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:30:15 +0100
Joerg Schilling <address@hidden> wrote:

Not sure about that
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0101.0/1364.html

> Peter Vrabec <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, 
> >
> > extracting a sparse file to a filesystem like vfat that does not
> > support sparse files results in an incomplete output file.
> >
> > See:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179507
> >
> > What do you think about attached patch?
> 
> Isn't this a work around for a OS bug?
> 
> Jörg
>