On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 11:55:16AM +0600, MeGaBrAiN wrote:
> Hello..
> I've search through bug list archive and didn't find any suitable..
> I have fedora (7) box with tar 1.15.1 on board..
> command:
> tar cvf archive.tar ./ --remove-files
> will perfectly create tar file and remove all archived files..
Is that intentional? It sounds like a race condition to me -- the file
is only archived/removed if it is already present when the directory
listing is made.
Sergey can speak for himself, but I'm guessing that creating an archive
in a directory where --remove-files is acting is "undefined". Perhaps
a sentence-long documentation of such would be in order.
> This behaviour was quite shocking for me cause i've lost a big bunch
> of data..
My condolances :(
Dustin
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Dustin J. Mitchell
Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc.
http://www.zmanda.com/
