[Bug-tar] tar1.22 complains when backing up a read-only filesystem

[Hill, Shannon]

using tar1.22 built on Centos 5.4  x86_64

 

Linux sim8.chipwrights.com 2.6.18-164.el5xen #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 04:03:03 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 

 

sim8/root@/tmp# /usr/local/bin/tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.22
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

 

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.

 

 

...with these options:

 

 

time /usr/local/bin/tar         \
         --create               \
         --format=pax           \
         --blocking-factor 2048 \
         --totals               \
         --multi-volume         \
         --ignore-failed-read   \
         --exclude .snapshot    \
         --new-volume-script /root/bin/eot \
         --file ${TAPE}        .

 

 

yields this output (for every file), when . resides on a read-only file system:

/usr/local/bin/tar: ./tcaputo/views/eclipse/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.root/.indexes/properties.index: Cannot utime: Read-only file system
/usr/local/bin/tar: ./tcaputo/views/eclipse/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.root/.indexes/properties.version: Cannot utime: Read-only file system
/usr/local/bin/tar: ./tcaputo/views/eclipse/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.root/.indexes/history.version: Cannot utime: Read-only file system
/usr/local/bin/tar: ./tcaputo/views/eclipse/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.root/.indexes: Cannot utime: Read-only file system
/usr/local/bin/tar: ./tcaputo/views/eclipse/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.root/1.tree: Cannot utime: Read-only file system
/usr/local/bin/tar: ./tcaputo/views/eclipse/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.root: Cannot utime: Read-only file system
/usr/local/bin/tar: ./tcaputo/views/eclipse/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.safetable/org.eclipse.core.resources: Cannot utime: Read-only file system
/usr/local/bin/tar: ./tcaputo/views/eclipse/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.safetable: Cannot utime: Read-only file system
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