> Eric Haszlakiewicz writes:
> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:36:58PM -0500, Joseph Sarkes wrote:
> > > for the last couple weeks I've been doing a tar -czf command
> > > to save my source tree. All my backups are bad, with corrupt
> > > zip files.
> > 	This is almost certainly the seek-beyond-end-of-file-and-write
> > bug.  gzip IS failing intermittently because it creates blocks of 0
> > bytes by seeking.  I haven't tried the fix yet.  (look a couple messages
> > back, I don't remeber exactly what file to revert at the moment.)
> 
> So, is this a problem with softdep, or something else (maybe
> UBC)?  I wasn't sure which earlier messages you were
> referring to...

It's miscfs/genfs/genfs_vnops.c

Try updating it to the latest version.

R.