Re: [AVFS] large files utar bug.

[Ralf H. <ra...@bo...>]

Hi again,

On 2013-03-21 16:04, dE . wrote:
> I've been using avfs to browse tar archives which're burnt directly to
> DVDs. It's been working great except for a bugs I've found out recently.
> 
> If there's a large file in a tar archive (no compression), like 5.5G+; then
> on opening this archive via avfs, the large file shows weird behaviour.
> 
> For e.g. in one case it was corrupt, in the other (~9 GB file), it's size
> was shown as 16EB.
> 
> I've tried these tests on a hard drive.

I have pushed some patches to fix some of these problems. The corruption
came from an overflow problem so reading a file stopped in the middle.
That is fixed now. Files in tar archives larger than 8GB needs a
slightly different handling, and support for that must be added. I will
do this next, but until that, those files are no longer shown as 16EB
but zero bytes large. If you want, you can try the git master branch.

Best Regards,

Ralf Hoffmann

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