Re: cvs history: warning: history line invalid

[Martin d'Anjou]

Larry Jones wrote:


> using CVS while you do that, though.  Is your repository on a shared
> filesystem of some sort?


Yes. We don't use client-server for now.

> If so, I strongly urge you to use client/

> server CVS with the repository locally mounted on the server instead --


The filesystem is only running filesystem stuff, nothing else. I need to 
check with my network admin if we're allowed to run a CVS daemon on the 
file server itself. What if I picked a server closer to the fileserver 
instead?


> we've had lots of reports of that kind of corruption caused by
> interoperability bugs in network filesystems.


Wouldn't all our files be corrupted? What makes CVS (in non 
client-server mode) so sensitive?

>  If that's not the case,
> I'd say your system has bugs in its implementation of append-mode files.


How can I identify if the problem lies with CVS or with filesystem 
interoperability?

Thanks,
Martin