On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Bill Lear wrote:

I've brought this up before, but I don't recall a resolution to it.

We have an NFS-mounted filesystem, and git pull is choking on it.

% uname -a
Linux uhlr.zopyra.com 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Aug 23 13:38:27 BST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I recall there was issues with NFS on some old linux version posted on 
the list a while ago.  Again the archive must have it but I'm too lazy 
to check.  Because the issue wasn't reproducible on later kernels, the 
conclusion was that the kernel was to blame.


Nicolas