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From: fridman@aa.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Robert Fridman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: using tar on nfs file system.
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.195903.20887@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Date: 17 Jun 91 19:59:03 GMT
Organization: U. of Calgary Computer Science
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I am trying to tar up a directory that is in an NFS mounted
file system.

I get this error:

	tar: ERROR!! Cannot archive foo.  It is of type nfs_dir.

Nither the tar or nfs man pages describe this.

But a copy worked.

SETUP:  DN4500, 10.3, nfs+patch 186, ethernet. Connected to sun4, SunOs 4.1.1.


Has anyone seen this before.

Thanks in advanced

	RF.