tar "memory fault"

casey at vangogh.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP casey at vangogh.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP
Mon Feb 9 17:18:55 AEST 1987


In article <2648 at ecsvax.UUCP> khj at ecsvax.UUCP (Kenneth H. Jacker) writes:
>	We are using the 2.9BSD-CSS/Harvard system on an 11/44.  When
>"tar" is used to backup most file systems, there are no problems.
>However, another (/dev/hk1c) causes the following message to be
>displayed: "Memory fault - core dumped."

  The problem occurs because tar recursivly traverses the file system tree.
On each recursion tar uses up some ungodly amount of stack.  I will be
working on the problem when I get to porting the 4.3 tar for 2.10BSD.  In
the mean time you'll either have to use dump, or do several tars at lower
points in the file system tree.  I think tar barfs at about seven levels ...

Casey.



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