On Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 08:47:44 (-0800) Linus Torvalds writes: > > >On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Bill Lear wrote: > >> On Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 08:34:18 (-0800) Linus Torvalds writes: >> >> [...] >> >> Resolving 2210 deltas. >> >> fatal: cannot pread pack file: Success [obj[0].offset=39393; obj[1].offset=39602; n=305; obj->size=0; rdy=0; len=207] >> >> fatal: index-pack died with error code 128 >> > >> >What's "n"? Is that the return value from pread? Or was that "rdy"? >> >> Yes, n is the value from pread. > >Ok, that's just ODD. > >Getting 305 bytes back when you asked for 207 is a bad bad bad thing. It's >also really really odd and unexpected. You may have missed my admission that I screwed up the print: n is 0, obj->size was 305. >What filesystem? And could you strace this and actually see the pread() >system call? How can I tell which filesystem? It's Linux all around, as far as I know. Here is what mount tells me about this filesystem: storage:/storage/disk1 on /austin type nfs (rw,addr=192.168.2.192) >(use "strace -f -o tracefile" to follow all forks and to put the end >result in a trace file) Will do ... Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html