From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:06:24 GMT
Subject: Re: fatal: serious inflate inconsistency
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0706081202580.4205@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0706081136480.4205@woody.linux-foundation.org>



On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> I'll build with ElectricFence, and see if it says anything for me. It 
> passes all the tests, but fetching the kernel is almost certainly going to 
> do things that we don't test for..

It passes smaller clones fine with ElectricFence (and bigger ones fail 
because EF uses *so* much memory for its checking that you cannot actually 
complete them), so I don't think this is a git bug. Sounds like either the 
hw problems are real, or there is some zlib (or other library) issue..

		Linus