On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:22:31PM +0200, Benny Halevy wrote: > On Mar. 25, 2010, 12:12 +0200, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:39:38AM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > > >> It makes no difference, fails just the same. Would an "strace" help? > > > > It might, especially if you ran it for identical repositories on local > > fs and on NFS; at least that way it would be possible to see where do > > they diverge... > > _______________________________________________ > > pNFS mailing list > > pNFS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://linux-nfs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pnfs > > ext3 fs exported on the server > client mount -t nfs4 localhost:/ /mnt/localhost > $ strace git status > ... > open(".git/objects/pack", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|0x80000) = -1 EISDIR (Is a directory) Interesting. It is a directory, indeed, but why the hell does that call fail with -EISDIR? Does that happen with nfsv3 or is that v4-only? I'm going to set up v4 server and client and see what happens, but that information could be useful... -- 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