Re: Discouraging :local:

[Larry Jones]

Fabian Cenedese writes:
> 
> As far as I followed the discussions here I think that the problem is not
> the main transport over ethernet but the real (not fully lockable) cvs
> operation on the server if you access a NFS repository with :local:
> Only if the server cvs does the operation itself it can lock it and therefore
> the need for a cvs server protocol.

No, the problem is that NFS is a horribly complex protocol and many (if
not most) NFS implementations contain bugs.  Although they nearly always
work correctly when the client and server systems are running the same
code, they frequently do *not* work correctly when the client and server
are running different code.

-Larry Jones

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