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Date:	Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:00:37 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	pNFS Mailing List <pnfs@...ux-nfs.org>,
	Benny Halevy <bhalevy@...asas.com>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...i.umich.edu>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT BISECT] first bad commit: 1f36f774 Switch !O_CREAT case to
 use of do_last()

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 05:49:39PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> - I have an exofs filesystem mounted on /mnt/exofs
> - []$ cd /mnt/exofs/some_linux_git; git status;
>   All is fine
> - []$ mount -t nfs4 -o minorversion=0 localhost:/ /mnt/nfs
>   (Where etc/exports will export /mnt/exofs via nfs4.1)
> - []$ cd /mnt/nfs/some_linux_git; git status;
>   This will fail and will corrupt the .git/index file. Sometimes the file would be
>   too short, and sometimes the file will become a directory (Yes really)

Bloody impressive...  Does that happen to underlying fs or to what you
are seeing via NFS?
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