[Ocfs2-users] git checkout on an ocfs2 filesystem

[Joel Becker]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 08:19:08PM -0500, Nathaniel Griswold wrote:
> Has anyone here had problems with git checkouts on ocfs2?

	Oh, boy, this is wacky.

> On a freshly created filesystem, i'm getting a bunch of weird errors
> as below, but only if i mount the filesystem on multiple nodes:
> 
> [root at node-2 tmp]# mkfs.ocfs2 -L "testvol" /dev/sdm
> [root at node-2 tmp]# mount /dev/sdm /tmp/m
> [root at node-1 tmp]# mount /dev/sdm /tmp/m
> [root at node-1 tmp]# cd m
> [root at node-1 m]# git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
> 
> Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/m/git/.git/
> remote: Counting objects: 104239, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (29045/29045), done.
> remote: Total 104239 (delta 75710), reused 101527 (delta 73491)
> Receiving objects: 100% (104239/104239), 25.43 MiB | 1299 KiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (75710/75710), done.
> error: git checkout-index: unable to create file
> contrib/remotes2config.sh (File exists)
> error: git checkout-index: unable to create file
> t/t4013/diff.diff_--dirstat_master~1_master~2 (File exists)

	I got it on this particular file myself.  I was using
2.6.18-128.el5 on a ppc64.  1.4.2 of ocfs2 as well.
	Can you file a bug at http://oss.oracle.com/bugzilla?  Include
all the info you have in your emails.  Thanks!

Joel



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