tar: Periodic failures when extracting a tarball on a SMB share

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Periodic tar extraction with gzip compression, # tar -xvz, fails with Cannot utime: Interrupted system call tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
  • The behavior is not readily reproducible, but is observed when the tarball is on a SMB share.

Environment

Observed on

  • kernel-4.18.0-193.1.2.el8_2.x86_64
  • SMB
  • tar

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