Hello,
I'm reporting the very same problem as previously against tar:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2012-01/msg0.html
The O_NONBLOCK flag causes problems on hierarchical storage systems.
Accessing an offline or partial-state file on these file systems thus
results with a corrupted
On 02/25/13 05:20, Vitezslav Cizek wrote:
> Dropping the O_NONBLOCK flag to open() solves the issue.
Doing that would have bad effects elsewhere, as it would allow
some denial of service attacks.
> A different fix was introduced to tar - dropping the flag with fcntl()
> after a subsequent read
