Re: CVS over NFS

[Tollef Fog Heen]

* Gianni Mariani 

| My experience with NFS file locking is that it does not allways work
| (on almost any platform).  NFS file locking may have improved and it
| may be less of an issue now but there is no reason to risk it since
| there are other more reliable alternatives.  I have used pserver mode
| pretty much exclusively in installations I use and it works best for
| cross platform development.

Is the main problem locking?  If so, would it help to place the locks
on a non-NFS disk?

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