Re: checkout/commit onto/from shared disks.

[Riechers, Matthew W]

Max Bowsher wrote:
> 
> David Bowring wrote:
> > My concerns were merely that I had heard noises about using CVS on disk
> > shares and was worried (in some part) about corruption, though I could
> > not foresee it.  All the clustered machines will be on a Gigabit
> > backbone, so this should negate the network throughput issue.
> 
> AFAIK, the corruption issues relate to storing the repository itself on a
> network share.

As anecdotal evidence, I'd submit that I have been hosting several sandboxes
on NFS shares for years without incident. As long as the path between the
client and server is not over a network sharing system, you shouldn't have a
problem.

-Matt