diff --git a/vfs/ChangeLog b/vfs/ChangeLog
index d3263c717..64fd5aa5b 100644
--- a/vfs/ChangeLog
+++ b/vfs/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2004-12-01  Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov@gmx.net>
+
+	* tar.c (tar_read_header): Skip over records containing
+        incremental tar specific info.
+
 2004-11-29  Jindrich Novy  <jnovy@redhat.com>
 
 	* direntry.c (vfs_s_readlink): Correctly calculate link length.
diff --git a/vfs/tar.c b/vfs/tar.c
index e377d9348..70d12fe1f 100644
--- a/vfs/tar.c
+++ b/vfs/tar.c
@@ -403,6 +403,13 @@ tar_read_header (struct vfs_class *me, struct vfs_s_super *archive,
     else
 	*h_size = tar_from_oct (1 + 12, header->header.size);
 
+    /*
+     * Skip over directory snapshot info records that
+     * are stored in incremental tar archives.
+     */
+    if (header->header.linkflag == LF_DUMPDIR)
+	return STATUS_SUCCESS;
+
     header->header.arch_name[NAMSIZ - 1] = '\0';
     if (header->header.linkflag == LF_LONGNAME
 	|| header->header.linkflag == LF_LONGLINK) {