Re: CVS on Samba

[Steve deRosier]

George,

Putting the repository itself on a networked drive (Samba or NFS or 
others) is generally not recommended.  Aparently there is a possiblity 
with data loss.  If you're running a server anyway, I'd just run CVS 
from the same server and do the checkouts and such via the client-server 
style of using CVS via SSH or RSH (or pserver, but you didn't hear ME 
sugest that ;) ).

We have a development server here that hosts both home directories 
mapped via Samba (for those silly people here still using Windows), and 
runs the CVS server.  Most people here actually keep their workspaces on 
the Samba'd home mount and use a local client to do checkouts from the 
CVS server.  So, the files in the workspace end up on the same machine 
as the CVS repository, but we always use client-server to make it 
happen.  Even when I work directly logged into the server via ssh, I use 
pserver to do my checkouts; This lets me use CVS the exact same way both 
locally and from my workstation via Samba.

This seems to work well for us.

- Steve

George Abraham wrote:
> Has anyone tried creating a repository on a Samba mounted drive?. Please 
> share your experiences, and points to be kept in mind while doing the same.
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> Regards,
> George Abraham
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