samba - Jul 2002 - Strange problem: File changed while we were reading it

Synopsis:

I do daily dumps from a Linux box of the Windows machines on my network.
(Kernel 2.4.7-10, Redhat 7.2., samba-2.2.1a-4 )  These are done overnight.

I mount the appropriate shared directories as a samba filesystem and use
tar to incrementally dump all recently changed files (using their time 
stamp).  I have done this for several years now.

On an older Linux system (Slakware based, older 2.2.18 kernel, older 
Samba), I had no problems.

I now get a number of errors of the form:
	tar: ./Toxocara/Restore/Toxocara.mdb: file changed as we read it

The files that generate these errors are completely static.  There are 4 
to 6 of them.  It seems always to be the same files.  Their timestamps 
look perfectly normal.  There is nothing that I can find that is altering 
these files.  Their timestamps have not changed.

Suggestions or pointers to fix this very annoying problem would be 
appreciated.

Pls reply to bbuckley@trilan.com.

Thanks in advance.

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Bert Buckley
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