Directories in wrong places, files missing

[KyleAMathews]

I'm getting odd errors with this module. I create a tar-stream of the current directory and then write it out to a file. When I open the tar, about 1/8 of the directories are in the wrong place (they were 1 level deep, now they're in the top directory. And multiple files are missing. It seems the same directories/files are moved/missing each time.

[KyleAMathews]

And it's not a files permission problem. All directories/files are owned by root and root is running the node process.

[mafintosh]

which os are you on? could you share the tar that is failing (and the layout of the folder you are trying to tar)?

[KyleAMathews]

This is on Ubuntu. The folder is at https://github.com/KyleAMathews/blog. The relevant code is at https://github.com/KyleAMathews/blog/blob/master/deploy.coffee#L38

[KyleAMathews]

I added tarStream.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('/tmp/blog.tar')) after that line to get the test file.

[mafintosh]

Yeah I'm able to reproduce, but only on ubuntu. I'll try to have a fix out shortly.

[mafintosh]

Fixed in 0.3.2.

This was caused by tar-stream identifying itself as ustar00 instead of ustar\x0000. GNUTar would then not expect the tar format to be ustar which is why it did weird stuff on long filenames.

Let me know if this also works for you.

[KyleAMathews]

Yup! That did the trick. Thanks! Great timing too as I'm releasing something today and didn't want to do an ugly shell-out to tar :)