Re: not all tests pass when on an NFS partition

Junio C Hamano wrote:

E R [off-list ref] writes:

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When I run 'make test' for git-1.6.1.3 it will fail on this test when
running on an NFS partition.

... when the filesystem clock and the machine clock are out of sync.

I previously modified t5304 to make test-chmtime modify the mtime of
the file based on the system time rather than the file mtime precisely to
avoid this problem.  i.e. the argument to test-chmtime is now prefixed with '='

So I don't think it is related to out of sync clock on NFS server and client.
There may be a bug in the NFS client though.

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Is this a known problem? Is this a real problem?

Known by me, but I haven't mentioned it since I haven't had a moment to
diagnose it.

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My uname -a: Linux XXX 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5 #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 13:45:01
EST 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

RHEL 5.2? me too.

RHEL 4.7 works fine, same NFS server (running 5.2).

-brandon