NFS Synchronization Problem?

David W. Berry (dwb@greenwing.com)
Mon, 18 Mar 1996 12:53:14 -0600


I have two machines, each running 1.3.75.

Machine a mounts machine b's root directory as /hosts/b.
On machine a I execute the following from a script:

cd /hosts/b
rm -f backup_info
tar czlf /dev/nst0 -g backup_info .

Tar then complains that:

tar: Can't write to /hosts/b/backup_info : No such file or directory.

Apparently, the order of the rm and the tar has gotten reversed.

I can't say whether this is a new problem or an old one, since I haven't
tried it on any older kernels.

David W. Berry dwb@greenwing.com 512 990-8885
Greenwing Enterprises; 15205 Horborne Ln; Pflugerville, TX 78660