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

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

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

From: "John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-evbmips/48564: 'tar' on evbmips-mips64el (LOONGSON) corrupts
 files extracted to NFS
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:05:23 -0500 (CDT)

 On Sat, 26 Apr 2014, John D. Baker wrote:
 
 > A plain 'cp src dst' where "dst" is on NFS works fine.  I did not explore
 > output redirection, which I should do when I next have opportunity.  So
 > far, all other writes to NFS-resident files (such as with 'vi') work.
 
 File writes via output redirection fail in the same way as extraction with
 'tar'.  File copy with 'cp' works.
 
 Editing a sufficiently large file with 'vi' and writing will produce
 error messages about an unknown file format and claims that the file is
 truncated, but later inspection indicates no obvious damage.  (I was
 editing my "~/.ssh/known_hosts" file at the time.  Subsequent use of the
 file by the ssh client succeeded--writing this very message over that
 session.)
 
 In the "changing too many things at once" department, these most recent
 observations were made on a release built with "HAVE_GCC=48".  So there's
 further potential complication.
 
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