Re: port-evbmips/48564: 'tar' on evbmips-mips64el (LOONGSON) corrupts files extracted to NFS

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-evbmips/48564; it has been noted by 
GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-evbmips/48564: 'tar' on evbmips-mips64el (LOONGSON)
 corrupts files extracted to NFS
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 05:16:24 +0000

 On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 09:45:00PM +0000, jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost 
wrote:
  > On my Lemote YEELOONG netbook, extracting a 'tar' archive to an NFS
  > destination yields files corrupted in the following fashion:
  > 
  >   8192 bytes file data #0
  >   8192 bytes 0x00
  >   8192 bytes file data #2
  >   8192 bytes 0x00
  >   [...]
  > 
  > and the file is truncated to the nearest multiple of 8192 bytes.
 
 Does this happen only with tar extracting files, or do any other
 things that emit files exhibit the same behavior? Other versions of
 tar?
 
 Also, if you're in a position to try, can you ktrace it to find out
 what size chunks tar is using to write the affected files?
 
 (and what's the nfs server? netbsd?)
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost