On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 02:37:39PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > > OK. I seem to recall these pack files are created with something like > > > > open > > write > > sync > > close > > rename > > > > ? > > Yes. We're trying to be _extremely_ safe and only do things that should > work for everything. > > > This is just ext3 with data=writeback on a local laptop disk, > > ubuntu's 2.6.24-21-generic. Would it be any use trying to look more > > closely at the pack in connection for any hints? > > You still have the packfile that caused problems available somewhere? If > so, absolutely yes. If you have the corrupt pack, please make it > available. > > > (But with my git repo back I'm happy enough to just forget this for now > > if there's not anything obvious to try.) > > With the actual corrupt pack, we can make a fairly intelligent guess about > exactly what the corruption was. Was it a flipped bit, or what? So if you > have it, please do send it over. OK! It's in: http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/bfields/bad-pack/ I assume the .idx file isn't interesting, but it's there anyway in case. --b. -- 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
