{"id":1026,"date":"2005-05-09T19:37:13","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T00:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2016-07-28T09:53:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T13:53:44","slug":"tiger-disk-image-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/09\/tiger-disk-image-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Disk Image Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirt-pocket.com\/forums\/showthread.php?p=1545#post1545\">Dave Nanian<\/a> has found a bug in Tiger that can corrupt sparse disk images larger than 1 GB (via <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2005\/may#mon-09-disk_image\">John Gruber<\/a>). Since <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/dropdmg\">DropDMG<\/a> does not create sparse images, it should be unaffected <em>except<\/em> if you ask it to convert a sparse disk image into an archive format (StuffIt, Tar, or Zip). Then, of course, it will try to mount the sparse image to access its contents, triggering the bug.\r\n<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Nanian has found a bug in Tiger that can corrupt sparse disk images larger than 1 GB (via John Gruber). Since DropDMG does not create sparse images, it should be unaffected except if you ask it to convert a sparse disk image into an archive format (StuffIt, Tar, or Zip). Then, of course, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[371],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-dropdmg"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15409,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/15409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}