consistency problem on ZFS

Hi,

I have a weird problem that seems to manifest itself only on ZFS (actually the Zevo distribution, on OSX). With git 1.8.2.1 by the way. I just switched to ZFS, so I can't blame that particular version of git.

"Sometimes" (I'd say something like 10-15% of the time, fairly reproducible anyway), "git diff-files" will see changes that don't exist for some time, then will catch up with the actual state of the file:

$ git checkout next; git diff-files; git checkout next; git diff-files Already on 'next' :100644 100644 bd774cccaa14e061c3c26996567ee28f4f77ec80 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 M magit.el Already on 'next' $

Here it was pretty quick, but sometimes I would see those phantom diffs for more than 5 seconds.

Interestingly, if I manage to run "git diff" during that time, this one reports no changes. See https://gist.github.com/sigma/5477827 for a more complex trace: "git merge" was complaining about changes, yet neither "git diff" nor "git status" did show any. That's the scenario I tried to minimize to the invocation above.

I'm willing to accept that the filesystem has some responsibility there, but the inconsistency bothers me. Anything I can provide to help finding the root cause of the issue ?

Thanks for any hint (and workarounds are highly welcome, as it breaks many of my scripts, and magit too :))

Yann.