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From: system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson))
Subject: Re: using tar on nfs file system.
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.115232.22103@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
Summary: Can't do it
Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
References: <1991Jun17.195903.20887@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 11:52:32 GMT

In article <1991Jun17.195903.20887@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> fridman@aa.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Robert Fridman) writes:
>
>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.

You can't use tar on an NFS file system - this is documented somewhere
in the NFS release notes I think. This is supposed to be fixed in the
NFS release due out this fall/winter, since without this (and other
improvements to Apollo NFS) you can't talk properly to foreign systems like
HP 7x0s running HP-UX. You will also be able to wbak/rbak NFS files,
and root will have root permissions, I'm told.
-- 
Mike Peterson, System Administrator, U/Toronto Department of Chemistry
E-mail: system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
Tel: (416) 978-7094                  Fax: (416) 978-8775