On Jun 26, 2008, at 7:36 PM, logank@xxxxxxxx wrote:
diff --git a/index-pack.c b/index-pack.c
index 5ac91ba..85c8bdb 100644
--- a/index-pack.c
+++ b/index-pack.c
@@ -313,7 +313,14 @@ static void *get_data_from_pack(struct
object_entry *obj)
src = xmalloc(len);
data = src;
do {
+ // It appears that if multiple threads read across NFS, the
+ // second read will fail. I know this is awful, but we wait for
+ // a little bit and try again.
ssize_t n = pread(pack_fd, data + rdy, len - rdy, from + rdy);
+ if (n <= 0) {
+ sleep(1);
+ n = pread(pack_fd, data + rdy, len - rdy, from + rdy);
+ }
if (n <= 0)
die("cannot pread pack file: %s", strerror(errno));
rdy += n;
This does work. But the "unpacking objects" phase becomes very slow.
I had 86 objects and I could see every time it did a sleep because the
counter would wait a second (or more) before the next object was
unpacked.
Ciao!
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