tar: Periodic failures when extracting a tarball on a SMB share
Issue
- Periodic tar extraction with gzip compression,
# tar -xvz
, fails withCannot 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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