Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> 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.
Did you see truss output from the related part of the gtar run?
I would like to understand what filesystem bug might cause a missbehavior.
Jörg
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