X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Subject: Re: "tar --one-file-system" accesses remote file systems Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:29:39 -0800 Message-ID: <70952A932255A2489522275A628B97C30620E047@xmb-sjc-233.amer.cisco.com> From: "Matt Seitz (matseitz)" To: Authentication-Results: sj-dkim-4; header.From=matseitz@cisco.com; dkim=pass ( sig from cisco.com/sjdkim4002 verified; ); Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by delorie.com id m1DJVRpT014766 "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" wrote in message news:<47B31A8F.7060008@cygwin.com>... > Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: > > This problem and a proposed solution was mentioned in an > > earlier e'mail (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1998-09/msg00839.html). Is > > there a known solution to this issue? > > You can check recent (and not so recent) email archives on the subject. I tried. The only discussion I found was the link above. If you can give me a pointer to another thread, I'd appreciate it. I'll also try additional searches based on the information you gave below. > As > I recall, it depends on your server and it's version. Older versions or FAT > file-systems have their inodes "faked". This may be the cause of the > problem you're seeing. Ah, yes, the mounted CIFS share is reported as a FAT file system*. So that may be the problem. I'll try it with a Windows server sharing an NTFS volume and see if I get a different result. *It's actually a Network Appliance ONtap WAFL QTree, configured to use "UNIX" security model. But ONtap reports "UNIX" QTrees as "FAT" file systems to CIFS clients.