On 08/19/2012 12:31 AM, shift wrote: > /$ ls -alh > ls: klogd: No such file or directory/
This does not appear to be a bug in 'tar', since no matter what 'tar' does, it cannot create a link that is both there (so that readdir sees it) and not there (so that lstat does not see it). Conceivably it is a bug in 'ls', but most likely it's a bug in your kernel or file system. You can try to start debugging it by invoking 'strace ls -alh' and inspecting the system calls that deal with klogd.
