[Bug-tar] gtar --listed-incremental silently failing again

[Dat Head]

i thought this bug was squashed in tar-1.15.92 (-20060707), we had
the problem before that and special patches were put into that version
that made the issue go away at that time;  however, as time has one
on and more files have been added to filesystem the bug is again back
and *silently* it just does not back up *any* files in that file system.

the original bug (and i'm sure this one)  is due to the number of
files (see below,
about 8.5 million inodes now) and something wrong with --listed-incremental
processing (because it does not happen w/o that flag, but we need it).  it
has to do with more than just the number of files though as we found before
that changing the placement of where in the order of fs's would sometimes make
it work (or not),  if we just backup this problem one and two others
it works ok,
but somehow the below combination does not

/usr/local/bin/gtar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.15.92

executing "/usr/local/bin/gtar -c -f address@hidden:/dev/sdlt27nr -b 256 -v -
-one-file-system --ignore-failed-read --totals --listed-incremental
/usr/local/adm/etc/bck
incremental.xray  ./ /home /usr/local /usr/LOCAL /ftp /vol1 /tools /ftp/data/2 "

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              9898580   4228320   5167428  46% /
/dev/sda2              9898612   1512032   7883748  17% /home
/dev/sdc1              9400448   6558612   2364308  74% /usr/local
/dev/sda5              4040000    169556   3665216   5% /usr/LOCAL
/dev/sdc2             19243772   1873880  16392340  11% /ftp
/dev/sdb2             10301792   5590436   4711356  55% /vol1
/dev/sdc3             28170276   5099804  21639484  20% /tools
/dev/sdc4            231548312  20971700 198814624  10% /ftp/data/2

Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda1            1259104  102907 1156197    9% /
/dev/sda2            1259104   12894 1246210    2% /home
/dev/sdc1            1196032   53668 1142364    5% /usr/local
/dev/sda5             514048    2711  511337    1% /usr/LOCAL
/dev/sdc2            2448000   93584 2354416    4% /ftp
/dev/sdb2            1310720  272486 1038234   21% /vol1
/dev/sdc3            3581088   18604 3562484    1% /tools
/dev/sdc4            29409280 8786224 20623056   30% /ftp/data/2

it sees that it is new (previous listed incremental file removed
before this run to
kick in a full backup), and sticks on mount point but that is it:

/usr/local/bin/gtar: /ftp/data/2: Directory is new
/ftp/data/2/