Andrew McGhee writes: > > I've heard it mentioned on this newsgroup that mixing NFS with CVS is a bad > idea. > > Can anyone elaborate more one this?
There have been lots of reports of repository corruption caused by interoperability problems between different NFS client and server implementations. The most common problem is missing data: the file contains a block of NULs instead of the correct data. Since you're considering using a system that is specifically designed to be an NFS server, it's reasonable to conclude that it has been throughly tested with a wide variety of client implementations and thus is unlikely to have such problems, particularly if the NFS client machine is a common commercial platform. I would be much more cautious with something like a Linux machine, since the server manufacturer has probably not tested it as extensively, if at all. (Many of the reports of corruption have involved Linux, but it's impossible to tell whether that means that Linux is more trouble prone or just more popular. If it is more trouble prone, it's impossible to tell whether that is because of bugs in the Linux NFS code or if it just exposes bugs in the other machine's server code.) So, it isn't necessarily a bad idea, but I would proceed cautiously. You might want to grab the script that was posted here a while back to check the repository for damage and run it nightly for a while. -Larry Jones Somebody's always running my life. I never get to do what I want to do. -- Calvin _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
