bug report

[Fred Batty]

Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 16:44 -0800, Fred Batty wrote:
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>> Matt Mackall wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 16:07 -0800, Fred Batty wrote:
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>>>> Yes, and I can clone successfully if the filesystem is local.
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>>>> Matt Mackall wrote:
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>>>>> On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 16:01 -0800, Fred Batty wrote:
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>>>>>> I don't believe so. But like I said, checking out the workspace fresh on 
>>>>>> the same filesystem also errors.
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>>>>> Jargon fail. Are you saying you're cloning from a known-good source?
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>>> I'm afraid I can't reconcile these two statements. Let's try again.
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>>> What I understand so far:
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>>> - you've got a damaged repo
>>> - you're using Cygwin under Virtualbox
>>> - you're using CIFS to mount the filesystem from Win7 host
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>>> What I'd like to know:
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>>> - do you have a remote repo that passes verify?
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>> I don't have access to the remote repo. But I can successfully clone 
>> from it writing to a local filesystem.
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>>> - what happens when you make a fresh clone from a known-good remote
>>> source[1]?
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>> Writing to the disk from the Windows host, it fails with the zlib error.
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>> Writing to a local filesystem, it works.
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> 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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The disk from the Windows host machine is mounted in the VM using 
Windows drive letter mapping as if both machines were on a LAN. The 
local filesystem is on the VM's own (virtual) disk.