Read the mail entitled "[PATCH 0/16] Assorted patches".
It seems to have been resent once, 7 days after you:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/15/231
At that time, I had experienced strange copy failures ("No such file or
directory") while the directory being copied was not modified. With the
patch, I at least got EINTR instead of ENOENT, which I think made cp
think once more to retry.
Jan
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