RE: upgrading repository from 1.10.8+ to 1.11, solaris to linux R edHa

[Gilles-Eric Descamps]

  Thanks for all those answers !

  just FYI:
  I'm using NFS to access the files as the
  NFS server is unable to run CVS (a Network Appliance).
  I don't want to store files anywhere else
  than on a Network Appliance as this machine
  has the "snapshot" feature which basically
  allows to keep your files like current,
  like they were at 10am today,
  like they were at 4pm yesterday,
  like they were last monday...
  (kind of a time-limited built-in CVS)

  I'll upgrade to cvs 1.11 plus edit patch.
  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 8:20 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: upgrading repository from 1.10.8+ to 1.11, 
> solaris to linux
> RedHa
> 
> 
> Gilles-Eric Descamps writes:
> >  
> > cvs is running through inetd in pserver mode.
> > files of the repository are accessed through NFS.
> 
> Why are you using NFS to access the repository if you're running
> pserver?  It would be a lot more efficient to run pserver on 
> the machine
> where the repository is.
> 
> > Sometimes, I get the error message:
> > edit: too many open files (when we try to do a cvs edit on 
> a lot of files:
> > 22500)
> > (cvs commit is able to commit those 22500 files.)
> > Do you know how to correct that problem ?
> 
> There were a number of memory and file descriptor leaks that 
> were fixed
> in CVS 1.11; hopefully this is one of them.
> 
> > I was thinking of upgrading my repository to cvs 1.11.
> > I was not unable to see through the mailing list, or on cvshome.org
> > if the edit -c patch was part of cvs 1.11.
> > Is the reserved edit (edit -c) part of 1.11 ?
> 
> No.
> 
> > What are the benefits of 1.11 over 1.10.8 for a :pserver-only ?
> > Should I upgrade my solaris 2.7 to cvs 1.11 ?
> > When reading NEWS, I did not find any new feature worth the move...
> 
> There are lots of bug fixes.  I definitely recommend upgrading.
> 
> > I was also thinking of moving the :pserver: to a Linux 
> RedHat 7.0 machine.
> > Would everything be smooth ?
> 
> Probably not.  There have been a lot of reports of NFS 
> interoperability
> problems with Linux machines (note that this does *not* imply 
> that there
> are bugs in the Linux NFS code -- the problems may well be bugs in the
> other machine's NFS code that Linux just happens to trigger) which
> typically result in a corrupted repository.  Also, Linux has 
> an annoying
> habit of setting $HOME for inetd/xinetd which causes havoc 
> when pserver
> inherits it.
> 
> On the other hand, if you dump NFS and deal with $HOME, it will work
> just fine.
> 
> -Larry Jones
> 
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