On Sunday 25 of October 2015 20:23:57 Linda A. Walsh wrote: > This may not be a tar bug, but I am trying to figure out > what is going on and/or why so many 'changes'... [..] > Trying to run tar, as such: > > > tar cf ~/Appdata.tar --acls --xattrs Appdata > > And got **78** lines (out of 64389 files in 12357 directories) > that claim "something changed". > Note: I wasn't running any of the below related apps as tar ran: > .... > tar: Appdata/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data/Default/Cache: file changed > as we read it
Try 'stat' on this file before/after running 'tar -c'. See '10.1.3 Race conditions' section in documentation [1]. Either make sure tar is the only process working with those files (globally as that is CIFS mount point, not only on your machine) or pass there '--warning=no-file-changed'. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html Pavel
