Re: CVS Best Practice: cvs in conjunction with nfs?

Larry Jones <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Peter Toft writes:
> 
> I have been using CVS with NFS for many years with SSH as a bearer in a
> multi-country setup for a large telecom - I have not seen any problems.
> Only problem seen has been lost lock files once in a while, which had to 
> be removed. And we have had our fair share of network trashing - as anyone 
> else has from time to time. Our bottleneck has not been cvs for sure.
> Our NFS servers are netapp boxes.
> 
> So the other replies in the same thread puzzle me a bit.

It sounds like you're in the "pretty safe" zone -- you're using a file
server appliance for the NFS server and it sounds like you only have a
single NFS client accessing it (the CVS server).  The real "danger zone"
is having a heterogeneous environment with lots of NFS clients accessing
an NFS server on a general purpose platform.  If I were you, I'd still
run validate_repo on a regular basis, though.
-- 
Larry Jones

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