[628] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
tar vs. cp in AFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dominick M. Galang)
Mon Feb 24 12:47:35 1992
From: sandman@bu-it.bu.edu (Dominick M. Galang)
To: info-afs@transarc.com
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 92 11:24:58 EST
Hi,
I didn't see this mentioned in any of the back topics on this mailing
list. Excuse me if it's been covered before.
Can someone explain to me why tar is less than thrilled to copy
directories than cp? In my example below, only five files are
attempted before the tar aborts. Both from-directory and to-directory
are within afs. I have read acl access to the from-directory and all
acl access to the to-directory.
buit52 sandman> (cd afs-xdm; tar -cvf - . ) | (cd ~/tmp/xdm; tar -xvf -)
a ./xdm.patch 16 blocks
a ./CHANGES 1 blocks
a ./Imakefile 6 blocks
x ./xdm.patch, 8090 bytes, 16 tape blocks
a ./Imakefile.orig 6 blocks
a ./Login.c 46 blocks
tar: can't set time on ./xdm.patch: Not owner
x ./CHANGES, 157 bytes, 1 tape blocks
tar: can't set time on ./CHANGES: Not owner
x ./Imakefile, 3024 bytes, 6 tape blocks
tar: can't set time on ./Imakefile: Not owner
x ./Imakefile.orig, 2873 bytes, 6 tape blocks
tar: can't set time on ./Imakefile.orig: Not owner
x ./Login.c, 23491 bytes, 46 tape blocks
tar: ./Login.c: HELP - extract write error: Permission denied
a ./Login.h 6 blocks
buit52 sandman> du -s afs-xdm ~/tmp/xdm
342 afs-xdm
12 /afs/bu.edu/usr/it/sandman/tmp/xdm
buit52 sandman> cp -pr afs-xdm/ ~/tmp/xdm
buit52 sandman> du -s afs-xdm ~/tmp/xdm
342 afs-xdm
342 /afs/bu.edu/usr/it/sandman/tmp/xdm
--dominick
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