tar: Reliability

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1 10.1 Reliability
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1 Ideally, when 'tar' is creating an archive, it reads from a file system
1 that is not being modified, and encounters no errors or inconsistencies
1 while reading and writing.  If this is the case, the archive should
1 faithfully reflect what was read.  Similarly, when extracting from an
1 archive, ideally 'tar' ideally encounters no errors and the extracted
1 files faithfully reflect what was in the archive.
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1    However, when reading or writing real-world file systems, several
1 things can go wrong; these include permissions problems, corruption of
1 data, and race conditions.
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· Permissions problems
· Data corruption and repair
· Race conditions
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