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Re: CVS, NFS Filesystem, and failover


From: Philip Lijnzaad
Subject: Re: CVS, NFS Filesystem, and failover
Date: 08 Oct 2001 15:30:34 +0100

> I've heard it mentioned on this newsgroup that mixing NFS with CVS is a bad
> idea.

Running CVS with the repository and/or the local working copies on
NFS-mounted disks is fairly common, I would say.  But it won't be immune from
general NFS problems, of course. 

I once tracked such a problem down to a
$CVSROOT/SomeModule/Some/Sub/Dir/.nfsSomeFilelock still lying around;
removing it manually solved it. I've seen similar things in user directories.


> The idea in mind is a CVS server has a repository that is NFS mounted from
> an external storage system.

>       (CVS server)             (Backup CVS server)
>            |
>            |
>          [NFS]
>            |
>            |
>     (Server exporting)
>   (NFS /cvs filesystem)

> The goal here is to have;
> 1. A backup CVS server, in case the first one fails.

Mmm ... I'm not sure how this should work, I can imagine that you can get
concurrency of locks? 

> 2. Disk storage from an external source (such as a NetApp system), that hase
> high capacity, is used for several different storage systems, and can
> centralize backups.

yes. For e.g. ext or pserver access, it would be nice to have direct disk
access, though. 

> 3. Possible to have backup CVS server come on line if the primary CVS server
> fails (mounting the NFS system, and taking over the IP address of the first
> machine)

Again, locks that get stuck may become a problem. 
                                                                      Philip

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