Re: [pnfs] [GIT BISECT] first bad commit: 1f36f774 Switch !O_CREATcase to use of do_last()

From: Al Viro
Date: Thu Mar 25 2010 - 06:49:32 EST


On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:22:31PM +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:
> On Mar. 25, 2010, 12:12 +0200, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:39:38AM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> >
> >> It makes no difference, fails just the same. Would an "strace" help?
> >
> > It might, especially if you ran it for identical repositories on local
> > fs and on NFS; at least that way it would be possible to see where do
> > they diverge...
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> ext3 fs exported on the server
> client mount -t nfs4 localhost:/ /mnt/localhost
> $ strace git status
> ...
> open(".git/objects/pack", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|0x80000) = -1 EISDIR (Is a directory)

Interesting. It is a directory, indeed, but why the hell does that call
fail with -EISDIR?

Does that happen with nfsv3 or is that v4-only? I'm going to set up v4
server and client and see what happens, but that information could be
useful...
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