https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69429
Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED CC| |jakub at gcc dot gnu.org Resolution|--- |INVALID --- Comment #1 from Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> --- Why do you file this against gcc? If anything, it is related to binutils, which is separate project. But, I'd say it is not a bug nevertheless, sparse files are an optimization, if you want to force no use of sparse files, you'd just always get the larger ones. If using tar doesn't preserve holes in sparse files, use other means of copying them.