[plug] Tar error explanation sought

[Mike Holland]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Earnshaw, Mike wrote:

> At the risk of sounding stupid, is this a "bad" error message? We seem
> gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored

Probably not.
It means that gzip is getting to the end of its data, but there is still
more in the file. ie 'gzip' expected EOF, but didnt get it.

> to get it all the time, yet I can recover from tapes no problem.

If its from tapes, perhaps its just padding to fill the last block?

> --ignore-failed-read

unrelated.


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