Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!svin02!eba!wjw From: wjw@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Another NFS gotcha Message-ID: <1114@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl> Date: 24 Mar 91 16:00:11 GMT References: <508478b3.1bc5b@pisa.citi.umich.edu> <1991Mar23.053057.14306@alphalpha.com> Sender: news@eb.ele.tue.nl (The News system) Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 39 In article <1991Mar23.053057.14306@alphalpha.com> nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) writes: =>In article <508478b3.1bc5b@pisa.citi.umich.edu> rees@citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees) writes: =>>In article , hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen) writes: =>> =>> % tar cvf /dev/null fixes =>> tar: ERROR!! Cannot archive fixes. It is of type nfs_dir. =>> =>>This isn't a bug in nfs, it's a bug in tar. Apollo tar is badly broken and => I have not been able to replicate this problem: (trying to tar the sun root file-system.) $ /bin/tar cvf /dev/null /usr/sun/root a /usr/sun/root/etc/fstab 1 blocks a /usr/sun/root/etc/exports 1 blocks a /usr/sun/root/etc/nd.local 1 blocks a /usr/sun/root/etc/dkinfo 48 blocks a /usr/sun/root/etc/nd 96 blocks a /usr/sun/root/etc/dump 176 blocks a /usr/sun/root/etc/rdump symbolic link to /etc/dump a /usr/sun/root/etc/group 2 blocks a /usr/sun/root/etc/hosts 2 blocks a /usr/sun/root/etc/hosts.equiv 1 blocks [ and more ] the version I'm, running is: (on a sr10.2 system) $ ts /bin/tar Ver Name Time Stamp File Name -------------------------------------------------------------- c 1 crt0 1989/03/16 17:53:57 MET (Thu) /bin/tar Ciao, Willem Jan Eindhoven University of Technology DomainName: wjw@eb.ele.tue.nl Digital Systems Group, Room EH 10.10 P.O. 513 Tel: +31-40-473401 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands