bug report

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 16:44 -0800, Fred Batty wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 16:07 -0800, Fred Batty wrote:
> >   
> >> Yes, and I can clone successfully if the filesystem is local.
> >>     
> >
> >   
> >> Matt Mackall wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 16:01 -0800, Fred Batty wrote:
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> I don't believe so. But like I said, checking out the workspace fresh on 
> >>>> the same filesystem also errors.
> >>>>         
> >
> >   
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> Jargon fail. Are you saying you're cloning from a known-good source?
> >>>       
> >
> > I'm afraid I can't reconcile these two statements. Let's try again.
> >
> > What I understand so far:
> >
> > - you've got a damaged repo
> > - you're using Cygwin under Virtualbox
> > - you're using CIFS to mount the filesystem from Win7 host
> >
> > What I'd like to know:
> >
> > - do you have a remote repo that passes verify?
> >   
> 
> I don't have access to the remote repo. But I can successfully clone 
> from it writing to a local filesystem.

> > - what happens when you make a fresh clone from a known-good remote
> > source[1]?
> >   
> Writing to the disk from the Windows host, it fails with the zlib error.
>
> Writing to a local filesystem, it works.

Yeah, you already said that. And I still don't understand what you're
trying to tell me. I don't know what "disk from the Windows host" means
and how its different from "local filesystem". More clarity, please.

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