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Re: cvs client failure to examine directory on NFS V3
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Larry Jones |
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Re: cvs client failure to examine directory on NFS V3 |
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Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:21:40 -0400 (EDT) |
Thomas Hellstrom writes:
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> When committing/importing from a directory which resides on an NFS V3
> filesystem, the CVS fails to examine the directories
> with a 'value too large for data type' error. Commits seem to work
> anyway, but once on a 'cvs import' a whole directory structure got left
> out which is not really good.
Having a working directory on an NFS-mounted file system is not a
particularly good idea.
> Fix:
> Adding "AC_SYS_LARGEFILE" to configure.in, and rerunning autoconf fixes
> the problem for me.
I'd be very leary of trusing this "fix". The CVS code has not been
vetted to ensure that it works correctly with large file support.
-Larry Jones
He piqued my curiosity. -- Calvin