Re: Strange VFS problem

[Paul Marwick <paul marwick gmail com>]

Further to my original message, I've now also tried an alternate archive 
format (bz2). No difference - the same failure on the same files.

I've also created a much smaller backup - excluding my email, which cuts 
the size of the archive from 800-odd MB to around 200. The files which 
caused problems in the full archive could be read in the new small 
archive without problems.

I've also checked in case it was a lack of space in /tmp, but that 
doesn't seem to be the problem at all. If nothing else, one of the files 
that MC is failing on is an entire 105 bytes, so it shouldn't need a lot 
of space to extract. Files which are not failing are much larger.

Paul.