From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:18:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Error "fatal: cannot pread pack file: Success"
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.0.82.0702281315480.29426@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702280910330.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Well, if the return value was 0, it wasn't as odd any more, and the reason 
> seems to be a file truncate error. Shawn seems to be on that one.
> 
> (The "return 305 when asked for 207" seemed like a kernel bug, which was 
> why I got really interested ;)

I wouldn't dismiss a kernel bug just yet.

Bill already said the same operation, when not performed over NFS, works 
just fine.

He also mentioned that version 1.4.4, which uses mmap() instead of 
pread(), works also fine even over NFS.


Nicolas