From: Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:12:55 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (decode_options): Do not require -L with -M -Hpax.
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(decode_options): Do not require -L with -M -Hpax.
It could be needed in future, but currently it is not.
---

diff --git a/src/tar.c b/src/tar.c
index 1e0f95d..8b35c58 100644
--- a/src/tar.c
+++ b/src/tar.c
@@ -2038,13 +2038,6 @@ decode_options (int argc, char **argv)
 		   | FORMAT_MASK (GNU_FORMAT)
 		   | FORMAT_MASK (POSIX_FORMAT));
 
-  if (multi_volume_option
-      && archive_format == POSIX_FORMAT
-      && subcommand_option == CREATE_SUBCOMMAND
-      && !tape_length_option)
-    USAGE_ERROR ((0, 0,
-		  _("creating multi-volume archives in posix format requires using --tape-length (-L) option")));
-
   if (occurrence_option)
     {
       if (!args.input_files)