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Message-ID: <873b4alj52.fsf@suzuka.mcnaught.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:51:37 -0400
From: Douglas McNaught <doug@...aught.org>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>,
amanda-hackers@...nda.org, Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, ck@....kolivas.org
Subject: Re: RSDL for 2.6.21-rc3- 0.29
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com> writes:
> If, and I have previously, I revert to a 2.6.20-ck1 patching, this does
> not occur. So my contention is that someplace in this recent progression
> from 2.6.20 to 2.6.21-rc3, there is a patch which acts to change how
> c-time is being reported to tar. Or there is a spillage into c-times
> when tar does its estimate scans where the output goes to /dev/null.
> Or possibly even this version of tar is doing it differently. I just
> looked up how to get the c-times out of ls, and they, as far as ls is
> concerned, look sane. But tars actions while running a 2.6.21-rcX kernel
> certainly are not. I do have a plain -rc2 I can try, so that will be the
> next test. If that also fails in this manner, I'll build a later
> 2.6.20-2 or whatever to verify that it doesn't so suffer.
You may find 'strace' useful to track down this sort of thing (though
the output can be voluminous).
-Doug
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