tar: blah.bleh: file changed as we read it
I have a file (two files actually) with different timestamps on the AFR
backends -- I presume because the file timestamp was set to the current time,
when the last write operation completed and there is some minor clock skew or
network lag. tar notices this intermittently, depending on which mirror
handles the request.
It is a little distracting when tar most unreasonably complains about
timestamps changing (what's wrong with a file having two timestamps that are
really quite similar ?!)
Did I do something wrong, and is there a way to avoid this? (FWIW, these
files were written by rdiff-backup)
&:-)
Sometimes this ...
% tar -c file_statistics.2008-10-2* | tar -tv
-rw------- root/root 13393 2008-10-21 17:25:22
file_statistics.2008-10-21T17:08:38+02:00.data.gz
tar: file_statistics.2008-10-21T17\:08\:38+02\:00.data.gz: file changed as we
read it
-rw------- root/root 15185 2008-10-22 07:24:58
file_statistics.2008-10-22T07:24:41+02:00.data.gz
tar: file_statistics.2008-10-22T07\:24\:41+02\:00.data.gz: file changed as we
read it
Sometimes not ...
% tar -c file_statistics.2008-10-2* | tar -tv
-rw------- root/root 13393 2008-10-21 17:25:21
file_statistics.2008-10-21T17:08:38+02:00.data.gz
-rw------- root/root 15185 2008-10-22 07:24:57
file_statistics.2008-10-22T07:24:41+02:00.data.gz