git 1.5.3.5 error over NFS

I've brought this up before, but I don't recall a resolution to it.

We have an NFS-mounted filesystem, and git pull is choking on it.

% uname -a Linux uhlr.zopyra.com 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Aug 23 13:38:27 BST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

% git --version git version 1.5.3.5

% git pull
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Done counting 998 objects.
remote: Result has 836 objects.
remote: Deltifying 836 objects.
remote:  100% (836/836) done
Indexing 836 objects...
remote: Total 836 (delta 526), reused 688 (delta 380)
  100% (836/836) done
Resolving 526 deltas...
fatal: cannot pread pack file: No such file or directory
fatal: index-pack died with error code 128
fatal: Fetch failure: git://source/repo

I looked through the archives of this list and did not see a final resolution, other than a suspected bug in the OS NFS code.

Do we just need to update our OS?

Bill