It seems NFS writing may be flakey...
When I untar from a floppy disk onto an nfs mounted disk, I get
intermittent corruption of the data (both actual data and size).
When I untar onto local disk, I don't have the problem.
When I copy from local hard disk to nfs hard disk, I don't have a problem.
I'm using 2.1.36...(I also started to use the new tar recently...
so it took me a while to narrow this down).
It:
is tar version independent
only happens of nfs writes with 2.1
marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com
Don't confuse education with schooling.
Milton Friedman to Yogi Berra