Re: Extracting a single directory from a partial incremental dump?

At Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:52:11 +0200,
Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Did you really follow my advise and use a _new_ archive created with a
> _recent_ star, when dong untar tests?

Yes, my script creates and extracts the archive, of course with the same
version of star: 1.5a67.
 
> On the other side, there are rumors that Reiserfs is not POSIX
> compilant.  In this case, Reiserfs may be the reason for the problems.

I just tried the script with ext2 filesystems: Same problem.  But I can
try with additional file systems in case you cannot reproduce the
problem on your system.

> Another problem may be caused by a bug on the compiler.... I did run
> all my tests with star binaries compiled by the Sun Studio 10
> compiler.

I may try compilation with the Intel compiler.

> Anyway, if you believe that you have a small test case that creates a
> small tar archive, I would like to look at that archive. I see no
> other way to proceed, unless you like to debug the problem
> yourself....

Uhm, doesn't the script that I provided in my previous email match your
definition of a small test case?  If you don't have "bash" installed, I
can of course provide a version ported to a different type of shell,
just tell me which one you like.

-- 
Felix E. Klee