hg verify: 'unknown compression type'

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 10:16:03PM -0400, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
> * Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> [050822 22:07]:
> > Ahh. I thought it was a literal '?', which is what my mailer is
> > showing me. Are -all- the question marks the same 0xFE? That would
> > point to some sort of systematic problem.
> 
> They are all 0xFE, but it's also all the same file.
> 
> > The interesting thing about this is it appears to be inserted at the
> > beginning of a file in a revision that was part of the original repo
> > commit. We only ever append to a file or copy it outright, so there
> > aren't any good explanations as to how this repo worked at one point
> > and then broke.
> > 
> > What filesystem are you using?
> 
> This repository is on an NFS mounted drive.  The actual filesystem on
> the server is ext3 software RAID 0.  There are many layers that could
> have caused errors, although I have not had other issues with this
> filesystem.

Well I still don't have any theories.

Anything special about your usage patterns?

You do pull via cronjob into this repo, then pull/clone occassionally
into another repo? Do you clone onto a local disk or onto the same NFS
volume?
 
> If I see anything else I will post it.

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