16:04:21 <nomad> FTR, this tar bug is breaking our archival process so it is ever so slightly important to me.
22:28:53 <jclulow> nomad: I have had a bit of a squiz
22:29:11 <jclulow> And I have at least some idea what's wrong
22:29:23 <richlowe> I have witnessed this squiz
22:29:39 <nomad> I think I'm hearing good things but I'm concerned :)
22:58:05 <jclulow> nomad: I've updated the ticket
23:01:13 * nomad takes a ... squiz :)
23:03:17 <nomad> I have a test instance that I can play with without breaking production. I will be happy to test any patches that might be available. I'm in that lab every Monday & Tuesday and every other Wednesday.
23:04:55 <jclulow> nomad: If you want to try something, you can try https://sysmgr.org/~jclulow/tmp/tar
23:05:07 <jclulow> Let me know if it's able to archive the 5G file correctly?
23:07:51 <jclulow> https://gist.github.com/jclulow/ff4a2d4c50daa5df277c327529345568 is the patch, FWIW
23:09:22 <nomad> I've started a tar c... but it takes a while to run. I'll take another look when I have some free time (right now I'm working on $job[2] and this is for $job[1])
23:28:34 <nomad> x largefile.gz, 1074611575 bytes, 2098851 tape blocks
23:28:42 <nomad> looks like a fail, though the extract hasn't exited yet.
23:28:53 <nomad> oh wait, never mind. I was the one who failed.
23:29:24 <nomad> ignore that meaningless attempt.