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Comment 9 for bug 1757565

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Ryan Harper (raharper) wrote : Re: [Bug 1757565] Re: btrfs and tar sparse truncate archives

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 2:56 PM, Joseph Salisbury
<email address hidden> wrote:
> @Scott, will that upstream commit make it so the kernel fix we are
> looking for is not required?

This is a curtin workaround; we're not using the sparse flag when invoking tar;
However, the bug/issue remains between tar and btrfs.

Outside of curtin's use of it it, any users of btrfs with any "sparse"
file detection are
vulnerable.

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