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Re: [Bug-tar] Detection of sparse files is broken on btrfs
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Mark H Weaver |
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Re: [Bug-tar] Detection of sparse files is broken on btrfs |
Date: |
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 10:45:14 -0500 |
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Hi Joerg,
Joerg Schilling <address@hidden> writes:
> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I just got bitten by the same problem reported back in July 2016:
>>
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2016-07/msg00000.html
>>
>> At the time, Joerg Schilling unilaterally refused to fix the bug,
>> claiming that Btrfs was broken and violated POSIX, although when asked
>> for a reference to back that up he never provided one. Everyone else in
>> the thread disagreed with him, but the bug never got fixed.
>
> Of course I provided that reference by pointing to the POSIX standard.
Please quote the relevant excerpts regarding the constraints on
st_blocks in relation to the file contents, along with links to the
official online text containing those excerpts.
Thanks,
Mark
- Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Remove nonportable check for files containing only zeroes, (continued)
- Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Remove nonportable check for files containing only zeroes, Mark H Weaver, 2018/01/23
- Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Remove nonportable check for files containing only zeroes, Andreas Dilger, 2018/01/23
- Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Remove nonportable check for files containing only zeroes, Mark H Weaver, 2018/01/24
- Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Remove nonportable check for files containing only zeroes, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/01/24
- Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Remove nonportable check for files containing only zeroes, Andreas Dilger, 2018/01/25
Re: [Bug-tar] Detection of sparse files is broken on btrfs, Joerg Schilling, 2018/01/08
Re: [Bug-tar] Detection of sparse files is broken on btrfs,
Mark H Weaver <=
- Re: [Bug-tar] Detection of sparse files is broken on btrfs, Joerg Schilling, 2018/01/08
- Re: [Bug-tar] Detection of sparse files is broken on btrfs, Paul Eggert, 2018/01/08
- Re: [Bug-tar] Detection of sparse files is broken on btrfs, Joerg Schilling, 2018/01/08
- Re: [Bug-tar] Detection of sparse files is broken on btrfs, Paul Eggert, 2018/01/08
- Re: [Bug-tar] Detection of sparse files is broken on btrfs, Joerg Schilling, 2018/01/08
- Re: [Bug-tar] Detection of sparse files is broken on btrfs, Paul Eggert, 2018/01/08
- Re: [Bug-tar] Detection of sparse files is broken on btrfs, Joerg Schilling, 2018/01/08
- Re: [Bug-tar] Detection of sparse files is broken on btrfs, Paul Eggert, 2018/01/08
- Re: [Bug-tar] Detection of sparse files is broken on btrfs, Joerg Schilling, 2018/01/09
- Re: [Bug-tar] Detection of sparse files is broken on btrfs, Tim Kientzle, 2018/01/09