Marc N. Cannava wrote: > > Has anyone else noticed a peculiar interaction between CVS and AFS? > > We're doing our development using an AFS filesystem for everything -- all user > accounts and development work is kept on an AFS filesystem. The CVS root > directory is also located in AFS. > > Here's the weirdness: The "history" and "log" files are all being filled with > nulls. As we make changes in CVS, the most recent data is appended to the > files, and the earlier data gets gradually overwritten with nulls. Basically, > what we wind up with are log and history files that start with a tremendous > amount of nulls and end with probably the last few checkin's worth of data. > > More weirdness: When I move the log files off of AFS and onto a local > filesystem, the files are maintained normally. > > Anyone else see this before?? > > \marc > -- > Marc N. Cannava | Tigers are nimble, > Technical Staff, The MITRE Corporation | And light on their toes, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (617) 271-2517 | My RE-spect for tigers, > http://www.ultranet.com/~mnc | Continually grows. --Hobbes Could you please specify on what type of machine(s) you experience these problems. TIA, Fred -- With kind regards / Met vriendelijke groeten DISCLAIMER: My view is not necessarilly ``` that of Shell Research or any of the (o o) Shell Group of companies !! --oOO--(_)--OOo--------------------------------------------- ``` ''' Fred Donck Distributed Systems Engineer __ __ __ Shell Research /_ /_/ /_/ __/ Rijswijk, The Netherlands / / \ /_ /_/ Tel. +31 (0) 70 3112374 Fax. +31 (0) 70 3113110 X.400 : S=DONCK/I=FCW/C=NL/ e-mail : A=400NET/P=SHELL/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] O=KSEPL RIJSWIJK/OU=RA14/OU=OPENMAIL
