From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:38:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Git open calls fail on NFS-mounted NTFS volume
Message-ID: <7vhbsba5p8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <F7CE7D3D-9237-494C-B6C8-6B6D7AB7CE45@stanford.edu>

Kai Lanz <lanz@stanford.edu> writes:

> There are several places in the code where git calls open() with the
> flag
> O_EXCL. This causes a problem for us when the current directory is on an
> NFS-mounted NTFS volume shared by an NAS fileserver.
> ...
> Git version is 1.6.5.3, running on x86_64 RHEL-4, kernel 2.6.9-89.

I do not use nor have access to RHEL, but does this ring a bell?

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524520