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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org [mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Knister, Aaron S. (GSFC-606.2)[COMPUTER SCIENCE CORP]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 23 November 2017 4:21 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [gpfsug-discuss] tar sparse file data loss<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Somehow this nugget of joy (that’s most definitely sarcasm, this really sucks) slipped past my radar:
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anyone know if there’s a fix in the 4.1 stream?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In my opinion this is 100% a tar bug as the APAR suggests but GPFS has implemented a workaround. See this post from the tar mailing list: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#494949">It looks like the troublesome code may still exist upstream:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#494949"><a href="http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/tree/src/sparse.c#n273"><span style="color:#0591E0;text-decoration:none">http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/tree/src/sparse.c#n273</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#494949">No better way to ensure you’ll hit a problem than to assume you won’t :)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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