CVS and NFS

[Andy Jones]

Can anybody confirm exactly what happens when you mix CVS and NFS?

I've just had some *extremely* nasty symptoms when trying to check out a 
top-level directory on a client machine: cvs hangs, network hangs, etc..

I *think* this is because I had an NFS share for the directory I did the 
checkout in.  Note, I'm not talking about sharing a sandbox over NFS here - 
just doing a checkout in a directory that I forgot was NFS shared.

The final solution seemed to be to stop NFS *and* stop and restart pserver on 
the server machine.

Was NFS the problem, or am I barking up the wrong tree here?

Andy Jones
Tapestry Software.