I wonder if you create a long file by that name with
"touch" then try to tar and untar it if it will report
an error?

--- Murf <jam AT philabs.research.philips DOT com> wrote:
> We're using amanda and GNU tar (1.13.25) to backup a
> new Netapp to a
> Solaris 8 Sun.
> 
> The first pilot users moved to the Netapp went fine,
> and then amanda
> started acting up.  The symptom was tar was grinding
> on one of the CPUs
> and amanda was marking the host as not responding. 
> The host happens to
> also be the amanda server, but I don't think that is
> relevant.  truss
> indicated that there were NO system calls being made
> by the process.
> 
> 
> Captured the amanda ps process being used and
> duplicated it on the command
> line, adding the --verbose flag.  What I've traced
> it back to, is one of
> the users I migrated to the Netapp had a very long
> file name in his .kde
> http cache
> 
>
./xxx/.kde/share/cache/http/r/www.redhat.com_docs_manuals_linux_RHL-7.3-Manual_getting-started-guide_figs_disks_xcdr1.png_5a13234a
> 
> Obviously nothing he tried to create.  Now the
> pathname is 131 chars long,
> and the basename of the file is 101 chars.  By
> renaming the file tar went
> along happily.
> 
> I did some web and Amanda archive searches looking
> for a reference to this
> problem and came up with nothing on point.  Of
> course I always second
> guess myself on the search criteria used.
> 
> Did I miss a known issue with gnu tar?  And I
> thought it odd that the
> "error" condition would be to sit and spin on a CPU.
> 
> 
> Has anyone else seen similar behavior?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Murf
> 
> /usr/local/gnu/bin/amanda-tar --version
> tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25
> Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent
> permitted by law.
> You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU
> General Public License;
> see the file named COPYING for details.
> Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
> 
> 
> root      7554 45.8  0.5 2200 1936 ?        R
> 18:00:01 811:11 /usr/local/gnu/bin/amanda-tar
> --create --file /dev/null --directory
> /moria/vol/vol0/Research --one-file-system
> --listed-incremental
>
/usr/local/amanda-2.4.3/gnutar-lists/castle_moria_vol_vol0_Research_0.new
> --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals
> --exclude-from
>
/tmp/amanda/sendsize._moria_vol_vol0_Research.20021031180001.exclude
> .
> 
> 
> -- 
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