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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Wed,  2 Jul 2008 21:40:23 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] pull in 9vx
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> I got crazy permissions here?!
>
> $ tar jxf plan9.tar.bz2
> tar: plan9/mnt/exportfs/16: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied
> tar: plan9/mnt/exportfs/1: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied
> tar: plan9/mnt/exportfs/10: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied

i'd guess that your tar isn't up to dealing with mode 555 on directories with substructure in the archive