The zip utility has problems when writing to a CIFS share

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The zip utility has problems with error on cifs share:

    $ zip /mnt/cifs/testfile.zip testfile.txt
  adding: testfile.txt (stored 0%)
        zip warning: new zip file left as: /mnt/cifs/zi2jhwAg
zip I/O error: No such file or directory
zip error: Could not create output file (was replacing the original zip file)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5.z
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6.z
    • Seen on kernel-5.14.0-570.19.1.el9_6

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