Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!olivea!tardis!tymix!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!svin02!eba!ebh.eb.ele.tue.nl!wjw From: wjw@ebh.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: using tar on nfs file system. Message-ID: <1225@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl> Date: 20 Jun 91 08:01:35 GMT References: <1991Jun17.195903.20887@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> <101020055@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com.> Sender: news@eb.ele.tue.nl (The News system) Reply-To: wjw@eb.ele.tue.nl Organization: Digital Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands Lines: 81 In article <101020055@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com.>, tomg@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com. (Thomas J. Gilg) writes: => => > tar: ERROR!! Cannot archive foo. It is of type nfs_dir. => => > The funny thing is that if they had just taken the Berkeley tar and compiled => > it, instead of mucking with it, it would work just fine. => => I suspect the mucking they did was to support the "-A" option. Using -A, => tar captures file type info. The flaw was that they still look at file typing => without -A specified. All Apollo-isms should be ignored if -A isn't given. Well see the following STRANGE behaviour, anybody who can explain? ebh{wjw}4: /com/ld -a /usr/sun/root Directory "//eba/usr/sun/root": sys type blocks current type uid used length attr rights name file type? 4 3803 P .cshrc file type? 1 15 P .cshrc5 file type? 1 157 P .defaults file type? 1 458 P .history file type? 2 1626 P .login file type? 1 84 P .login5 file type? 1 113 P .profile file type? 1 70 P .profile5 file type? 1 56 P .rhosts file type? 0 0 P .rhosts5 file type? 1 466 P .rootmenu file type? 1 297 P .suntools dir type? 1 88 P apollo link awb dir type? 2 3652 P bin file type? 36 36244 P boot dir type? 5 12408 P dev dir type? 2 3828 P etc dir type? 1 308 P install file type? 160 152473 P kadb dir type? 1 616 P lib dir type? 8 88 P lost+found dir type? 1 88 P mnt dir type? 1 176 P stand dir type? 1 748 P suntools link sys link tmp dir type? 5 176 P tmpdev3.5 dir type? 1 88 P usr dir type? 1 88 P usr2 file type? 544 548680 P vmunix file type? 2 1369 P wjw_actie 32 entries, 787 blocks used. [Note: the type mgrs ARE installed in the /sys/mgrs] ebh{wjw}6: obty /usr/sun/root "/usr/sun/root" object type is nfs_gate - remote from "//eba" But then I can still go: (it takes ages, .... but it works) ebh{wjw}7: tar cvf /tmp/barf /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 . . . 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