Bug 11526

Summary: tar: archive with GNU volume label rejected
Product: Busybox Reporter: Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component: OtherAssignee: unassigned
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: busybox-cvs
Priority: P5    
Version: 1.33.x   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Michał Górny 2018-11-26 17:58:07 UTC 
When trying to extract an archive that contains GNU volume label, busybox tar fails:

$ busybox tar -xf gnu.tar 
tar: unknown typeflag: 0x56

It would be nice if 'V' members were simply ignored (or at least written to file, as POSIX specifies for unknown typeflags).

To reproduce:

echo test > input.txt
tar -cf gnu.tar -V test input.txt
Comment 1 Denys Vlasenko 2018-11-27 11:09:45 UTC 
Fixed in git. Thanks.