Re: svn checkout on NFS fails (missing fsync()?)

On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 08:55:19AM +0200, Joachim Worringen wrote:
> I checked with strace and found this sequence being the culprit:
>
> This means, svn writes to a file (here, 227 bytes) which in my setup is
> mounted via NFS, and checks it's size directly afterwards. NFS returns
> an outdated size (0 bytes), which then causes the error when used for
> 'Content-Length' in the REPORT request.
>

This seems to be a specific problem in a few NFS clients - fstat() over
NFS normally works fine.

For example, RHEL4U4 (but not RHEL4U3) and derived (CentOS, WBEL)
kernels appear to have this problem, see:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194088

If that is the problem you're having, you may find that if you mount the
filesystem with either the 'sync' or 'noac' mount options, things start
working.

Regards,
Malcolm