more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:38:06AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], KSrinivasa Raghavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reasons I was unable to checkout sources from cvs server of FreeBSD sources. I have been using anoncvs.FreeBSD.org to fetch the files. I

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the right mailing list to plead for more anoncvs mirrors? I doubt that pleading would help, but volunteering might. :-) I have (had?) been maintaining anoncvs.freebsd.org, but I don't have time for any others. In

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:54:20AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the right mailing list to plead for more anoncvs mirrors? I doubt that pleading would help, but volunteering might. :-) For occational personal use,

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread John Polstra
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

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:41:13AM -0700, 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

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread John Baldwin
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

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, you are right. cvs writes the shadow stuff in /tmp. bleah. It does honor $TMPDIR and the -T option, though. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:54:20AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: a few important points: Supporting SSH transport would be a good idea too. Kris PGP signature

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:54:20AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: - You need a pretty powerful machine to handle even, say, 4-6 clients at a time. Anonymous CVS is a hog like you wouldn't believe. Don't try to use the machine for anything else if you're using it for anonymous CVS. I have

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread Christian Weisgerber
David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the right mailing list to plead for more anoncvs mirrors? grappa.unix-ag.uni-kl.de provides anoncvs, among other services. (See http://.../ for a list.) However, - the box runs on OpenBSD, and since all three BSDs appear to use incompatible

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread Christian Weisgerber
David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - You need a pretty powerful machine to handle even, say, 4-6 clients at a time. Anonymous CVS is a hog like you wouldn't believe. I have to wonder if there are tricks one can use. No. Get a gig of memory, and put ~anoncvs/tmp on a memory disk.

Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none

2001-09-05 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:03:37PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: The GCC and OpenBSD people depend on anoncvs as their main repo transport mechanism. (You can't transport a repo with cvs. OpenBSD infrastructure Not in the sense of CVSup, but for some defintion of transport you can.