Re: [Bug-tar] tar (GNU tar) 1.29 bug in --no-recursion

Hi, thanks for the report. On Friday, March 31, 2017 1:41:20 PM CEST N wrote: > I'v recently updated my tar to 1.29. > I use flexbackup and got a regression. > The cause was ignoring --no-recursion parameter. > So, I would like to report a bug. > > I found, that tar behavior depends on parameter

Re: [Bug-tar] Use posix_fadvise to improve archive creation performance

On 03/30/17 20:34, Ralph Corderoy wrote: >>> I think it would be a good idea to add an option to tell tar whether >>> to use POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE, POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED, or neither, since >>> there may be cases where any of the three possibilities is best. [...] > I often want to run tar, sha1sum, grep

[Bug-tar] tar (GNU tar) 1.29 bug in --no-recursion

Hello. I'v recently updated my tar to 1.29. I use flexbackup and got a regression. The cause was ignoring --no-recursion parameter. So, I would like to report a bug. I found, that tar behavior depends on parameter position. Bug reproduces in the following cases: $ echo '/run' | tar --create --fi