Philip Rowlands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha escrit: > I defer to the greater knowledge of the maintainers whether this is a > real bug in busybox, a real bug in GNU tar, or an unfortunate silent > corruption because last week I didn't know --blocking-factor existed.
Knowing the blocking factor used when creating the archive is indeed essential for successful updating that archive. So, from the point of view of GNU tar, I wouldn't qualify it as a bug. Nevertheless, GNU tar could try to guess the blocking factor or, at least to abort without modifying the archive if its size does not fit the used factor value. I will try to improve it in this direction. >From the other hand, busybox would better interoperate with GNU tar if they used the same blocking factor. Regards, Sergey
