help with cvs server

[Mike Klinke]

On Friday 17 December 2004 22:14, Skunk Worx wrote:
 
>
> 1) Is it okay to export CVSROOT over NFS? I sometimes (every
> several weeks) see the mount fail and the logs on the server say
> something about "rpc.mountd() : fhxxx() failed" (can't remember
> the exact message) and then I restart NFS and all is well again
> for several weeks.

If you plug "nfs" into the search engine at the CVS email list 
archives you'll see the resounding answer is no.  Do not use CVS in 
conjunction with NFS shares.  One of the main devleopers sent this 
to the CVS list:

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The correct question is this:

"Is it ever acceptable that a 'cvs commit' may corrupt the 
repository without any notification of any problems whatsoever 
until much time has passed and there is a need to checkout an old 
version of the repository that is found to be corrupted due to 
earlier NFS usage?"

If the answer is: 

"We do not care about old versions or if they might happen to be 
corrupt.", then by all means feel free to use NFS to do the 
checkouts.

If the answer is: 

"Correctness is more important than speed." then just say no to 
using the NFS approach.
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Regards, Mike Klinke