On 08/28/2012 08:11 AM, t...@riseone.org wrote: > So I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on another machine and copied the tar v1.22 from > that machine to my Xubuntu 12.04. It works with out any issues. > > So its looks like an issue with tar 1.26 that is distributed with > Ubuntu/Xubuntu 12.04 rather than a filesystem issue.
Sorry, but from the symptoms you described earlier, it very much looks like a file system issue. It's true that you are observing the bug only when you use tar 1.26, but it's not a bug in tar 1.26 itself -- it's a file system (or kernel) bug that tar 1.26 happens to be running into but that earlier versions of tar do not. You will get the same bug with other programs, eventually, if you keep using that file system. So my suggestion is to get that file system bug fixed.
