Huh. It could be that the NTFS <=> Linux VFS layer is not entirely behaving as it should. DOS of course doesn't have . or .. or links.
I'll forward this to the Pax maintainer in case he's seen anything like it. Personally I prefer the find/cpio combination anyway, instead of the tar syntax. The cpio is also the same (pax/tar). Note, email is supposed to be wrapped to 80 characters per line, *before* you send it... Usually there is an option in your client. -Tom On Thu, 2 May 2002, Visser, Martin (SNO) wrote: > Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 09:48:10 +1000 > From: "Visser, Martin (SNO)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [tomsrtbt] Pax/Tar empty directory issue > > I used the out-of-the-box tomsrtbt 2.0.88 to do a recover files from a W2K system I >was locked out of. Files were on a NTFS partition. However when I went to use pax/tar >to pack up a directory tree, it barfed with a "mem_get() of of memory" error. I >managed to track this down to when it was trying to traverse a tree branch only >containing empty directories. It seemed to be going around the same directories at >the one level without stepping to the next part of the tree. I successfully worked >around this by using find and cpio. > > Anyone else seen this? If I get a chance over the next week or so I'll look at the >code if no one else is. > > > > Martin Visser > Network Consultant - Compaq Global Services > > Compaq Computer Australia > 3 Richardson Place > North Ryde, Sydney NSW 2113 > Australia >
