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Re: tar xfs problem ? was: Re: xfs_fsr broken again?

To: Christian Guggenberger <christian.guggenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: tar xfs problem ? was: Re: xfs_fsr broken again?
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: 08 Oct 2002 10:20:52 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx, Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>
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On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 09:05, Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> On 08 Oct 2002 13:47:37 Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> > On 08 Oct 2002 10:15:33 Nathan Scott wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:43:16AM +0200, Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I have the same problems here on my debian/unstable box. According to
> >> > Nathan Scott the builds are fine on his box... maybe Nathan should
> >> check
> >> > again?!
> >> > ...
> >> > But you can use the latest xfsprogs, xfsdump and attr binary packages
> >> from
> >> > debian/unstable, they contain the fixes Eric checked in last week.
> >> 
> >> *cough* -- those would be the packages I built on my (debian/unstable)
> >> laptop just yesterday, right? ;-)
> >> 
> >  It seems to be a problem, when building those debian packages on a 
> > xfs-Partition... the Problem seems to be in tar... I get proper builds 
> > on an ext3 filesystem...
> > 
> ....
> 
> i just checked again on a system running CVS Kernel of September, 2nd; 
> this machine has no Problems with "false" symlink names in a tarred 
> archive. My previous tests (which showed those symlink problems in tar 
> archives) had been run on today's CVS Kernel ...
> 
> Christian
> 

The length of a symlink appears to be getting messed up. I will take a
look since I made some changes in this area recently.

Steve

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