tar fails on FreeBSD 7 and passes on FreeBSD 6 for the same input

[chandra reddy]

Hi,

I am getting the following error when i run tar on a directory.

[chandra at home]$ tar  zcf config-xsl.tar  config-xsl/9.6

tar: Cannot open directory
config-xsl/9.6/configuration/protocols/mpls/label-switched-path/oam/bfd-liveness-detection/detection-time:
No such file or directory
tar: Cannot open directory
config-xsl/9.6/configuration/protocols/mpls/label-switched-path/oam/bfd-liveness-detection/failure-action:
No such file or directory
[chandra at home]$ ldd  tar
tar:
        libc.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/compat/libc.so.6 (0x28097000)
chandra at home]$ uname -a
FreeBSD chandra 7.1-RC1 FreeBSD 7.1-RC1 #0: Sun Dec  7 05:57:33 UTC 2008
root at logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
I have debugged libc and found that  system call "fstafs" is failing and
returning -1.

Can any one help me what is the real problem here and how to fix it?



Thanks
Chandra_

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