Re: Issues with network file systems and CVS

[Frederic Brehm]

At 02:57 PM 9/17/2002, Matthew Navarre wrote:
> Could someone explain to me the issues with mounting the repo via a network
> filesystem?


Here's what happened to us: a file was corrupted and we could not recover 
older versions. (Our backup administrator failed to verify that the backup 
system was in fact backing up the disk.) It delayed our development for 
nearly a day while we tried to recover.

Do you want something like this to happen when a deadline is looming? Even 
if your backup system is good? I thought not!

Use client-server CVS.


The technical reason for the failure has to do with locking in the 
repository. Locking is a tricky thing to do in a distributed system. 
Implementations often have subtle bugs.

Fred

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Frederic W. Brehm, Sarnoff Corporation, http://www.sarnoff.com/