I have an NFS exported directory "/share" which contains
"/share/Mac"; the
"Mac" directory is itself exported vi netatalk, and contains several
GB of
Macintosh files.
If I execute
tar cf /dev/null Mac when "/share" is my current directory on the 4.10
box
nothing happens, other than consuming a lot of machine cycles.
On a 5.3-STABLE box, where the /share directory is NFS-mounted, when I
execute
tar cvf /dev/null Mac
when /share is my current directory I get
p4dc6# tar cf /dev/null Mac
archive_write_pax_header: 'x' header failed?! This can't happen.
p4dc6#
This is reproducible, and happens after a specific file in an Apple
network software installation directory.
There is nothing in /var/log/messages.
A Google search found only a reference to one message in the
"perforce"
FreeBSD mailing list (change 66084) which appears to show that this
error message was added on 11/30/2004.
dmesg header is (there are two physical CPUs, the kernel is SMP):
FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Sun Jan 23 21:24:20 EST 2005
root@p4dc6.familysquires.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/XEON
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) XEON(TM) CPU 1.80GHz (1784.28-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf24 Stepping = 4
Features=0x3febfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,C
MOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM>
Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
I can provide additional information, assuming that this is something as
yet uncorrected.
Mike Squires