tar - file changed as we read it

[robertw]

i know what i will do to check if the tar is the same as the source directory i will do this -

tar -cf - after_louise_1606/ | md5sum

md5sum after_louise_1606.tar

and if there is no corruption they should be the same md5sum figures

[robertw]

i think i know what the problem is, its because im running the tar command over an nfs share and not on the local drive, this is why im getting read errors as when i run the tar command on my local disk (copy the data over to my local disk) it creates the tar fine

has any else encountered this problem?