[parisc-linux] kernel panic when extracting large tar files

[Carlos O'Donell]

> Matthieu Delahaye told me that since the very first days of pa/linux; 
> this bug has existed, mostly happening on 'un-taring' files, obliging 
> users to untar by small chunks of data.

And hardware errors have existed since the beggining of time ;)
 
> FWIW, I experienced that bug too on the A500, had no time to chase it 
> down but I will look at it soon.

How big is the file? I routinely tar/untar _very_ large source archives
on my A500 and I see no problems. 

c.