Re: [Bug-tar] tar v1.26 - Folder has been renamed problem

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Hi,

Is truss the same as strace?

Regards,

Tim.

On 29/08/12 11:31, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On 08/28/2012 08:11 AM, address@hidden 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