Re: Bug Report

[Larry Jones]

Adrian Wander writes:
> 
> We have a CVS archive located on a file server which is
> NFS mounted onto a number of machines. Occasionally
> the base files of the archive are being corrupted. This
> takes the form of a number of null characters being inserted
> into the file. Lower down the file, an identical number of
> characters are deleted. The insertion/deletion appears to
> occur at random places in the archive.

This is caused by NFS bugs.  Unfortunately, they're almost always
interoperability bugs (i.e., they only happen when the NFS client and
server are different systems) and each vendor will insist that the
problem must be with the other vendor's code.  This is the main reason
we say you should never put your repository on a shared filesystem, you
should use client/server CVS instead.

-Larry Jones

My upbringing is filled with inconsistent messages. -- Calvin