On 05-Sep-01 John Polstra wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:54:20AM -0700, John Polstra wrote:
>> > - You need an MFS filesystem with zillions of inodes, because
>> > anonymous CVS just hammers the disk with tiny lock files or state
>> > files. If they are on a drive that has moving parts, your system
>> > will tear itself apart.
>>
>> setting CVSREADONLYFS to 1 will prevent locking. This also means you don't
>> need to give the anoncvs user write access to the lock directory. I
>> presume this is where most of the anoncvs hogness lies, so this should make
>> it go quite a bit faster.
>
> Nope. Anoncvs.freebsd.org already has/had CVSREADONLYFS set, but
> that did not eliminate the need for the MFS. If I recall correctly,
> remote CVS creates a shadow checkout tree of CVS/ directories and
> their administrative files for each client. That's what hammers the
> disk on the server.
Yeah, it does. Likes to put it in /tmp too.
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