tar/tar-1.26-pax-big-sparse-files.patch
Pavel Raiskup 87cdd4918e tar: bugfix for creation of --posix --sparse tarballs
GNU tar failed to create posix archives containing sparse files of effective
size (real size stored on the disk) >8GB.

Version: 2:1.26-19
Resolves: #516309
2013-03-01 11:49:55 +01:00

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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8aeae33..8f3c416 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2012-11-19
Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
+** Sparse files with large data
+
+When creating a PAX-format archive, tar no longer arbitrarily restricts
+the size of the representation of a sparse file to be less than 8 GiB.
+
version 1.26 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2011-03-12
-* Bugfixes
+* Bug fixes
** Fix the --verify option, which broke in version 1.24.
diff --git a/src/sparse.c b/src/sparse.c
index 4b2f982..cfd0c66 100644
--- a/src/sparse.c
+++ b/src/sparse.c
@@ -919,6 +919,18 @@ pax_sparse_member_p (struct tar_sparse_file *file)
|| file->stat_info->sparse_major > 0;
}
+/* Start a header that uses the effective (shrunken) file size. */
+static union block *
+pax_start_header (struct tar_stat_info *st)
+{
+ off_t realsize = st->stat.st_size;
+ union block *blk;
+ st->stat.st_size = st->archive_file_size;
+ blk = start_header (st);
+ st->stat.st_size = realsize;
+ return blk;
+}
+
static bool
pax_dump_header_0 (struct tar_sparse_file *file)
{
@@ -968,9 +980,7 @@ pax_dump_header_0 (struct tar_sparse_file *file)
return false;
}
}
- blk = start_header (file->stat_info);
- /* Store the effective (shrunken) file size */
- OFF_TO_CHARS (file->stat_info->archive_file_size, blk->header.size);
+ blk = pax_start_header (file->stat_info);
finish_header (file->stat_info, blk, block_ordinal);
if (save_file_name)
{
@@ -1035,9 +1045,7 @@ pax_dump_header_1 (struct tar_sparse_file *file)
if (strlen (file->stat_info->file_name) > NAME_FIELD_SIZE)
file->stat_info->file_name[NAME_FIELD_SIZE] = 0;
- blk = start_header (file->stat_info);
- /* Store the effective (shrunken) file size */
- OFF_TO_CHARS (file->stat_info->archive_file_size, blk->header.size);
+ blk = pax_start_header (file->stat_info);
finish_header (file->stat_info, blk, block_ordinal);
free (file->stat_info->file_name);
file->stat_info->file_name = save_file_name;