On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:11:45PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > A prime example is the "tar" testsuite which is very picky about > > filesystem behaviour. > > - With a real ARM CPU building on local (USB) storage, it passes all tests > > - With a real ARM CPU over NFS the testsuite fails one test (cyclic renames) > > - From QEMU in a locally-mounted nfsroot it fails a dozen tests. > > - Building with QEMU in an NBD volume passes all tests. > > Clock skew, I guess?
IIRC it has to do with the order in which files in a directory are returned by readdir. We found that the tar testsuite blew up on some RHEL systems too, and various NFS servers. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
