Re: Pax/Tar empty directory issue

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
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> North Ryde, Sydney NSW 2113
> Australia
>