refuse to update certain files upon extraction

What could star prevent from overwriting existing files when invoked like 
that:

   star -xpU f=archive.tar

?

I did some incremental dumps, restored them in a different filesystem and 
compared to the original one. Level 0 is no problem. On higher levels, 
however, certain files are not updated and hence differ from the current 
original. I checked the archives, and they contain the files in question in 
the correct version. But they are not extracted over the existing, outdated 
files! Neither when I try with -xpU, nor when I try with -xpU -restore. 
Extracting into an empty directory works (that way I found out that the files 
inside of the archive are the correct ones).

I have not yet found a way to reproduce this. I am using 1.5a87, but I 
already observed something like that with the previous version. Strange thing 
is that this occurred kind of suddenly. The same setup used to work fine for 
some time before. I switched from ReiserFS to EXT3 some time ago; that's the 
only way in which the setup was changed significantly recently.

Do you have an idea what could be behind this?

I will also try to find a way reproducing this.

Lasse

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