On 03/24/2010 06:00 PM, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 05:49:39PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: >> - I have an exofs filesystem mounted on /mnt/exofs >> - []$ cd /mnt/exofs/some_linux_git; git status; >> All is fine >> - []$ mount -t nfs4 -o minorversion=0 localhost:/ /mnt/nfs >> (Where etc/exports will export /mnt/exofs via nfs4.1) >> - []$ cd /mnt/nfs/some_linux_git; git status; >> This will fail and will corrupt the .git/index file. Sometimes the file would be >> too short, and sometimes the file will become a directory (Yes really) > > Bloody impressive... Does that happen to underlying fs or to what you > are seeing via NFS? Only via NFS. All local access is fine. After the corruption above I can cd to the local mount cp a fresh copy of .git/index file and play around just fine. Once I return to the NFS mounted directory, a git status will do it. It does not matter if caches are cold (Takes a long time) or hot it happens every time. Weird I know, I'm playing some more with it as we speak Thanks Boaz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html