Alan Dayley writes: > > 1. I have been told that the following setup will lead to corruption > because of esoteric problems in SMB that CVS can bring out:
[client/server CVS with the working directory on a Samba share from the CVS server machine] That won't cause corruption, but lots of people have reported strange permission problems (probably due to the complexity of mapping Windows file permissions to Unix file permissions). > 2. Is this setup any better or does it still have the SMB issues? [same thing but with the working directory mounted from a different machine than the CVS server machine] You're still running the same risk of screwy permission problems if you use a Linux server, but a Windows server should be fine (assuming that SMB actually works correctly in all instances). > 3. So the only reliable operation is to have the working directory on a > locally mounted file system? That's certainly the best choice, at least in terms of reliability and performance. -Larry Jones I can do that! It's a free country! I've got my rights! -- Calvin _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
