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Re: Issues with network file systems and CVS
From: |
Frederic Brehm |
Subject: |
Re: Issues with network file systems and CVS |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:01:18 -0400 |
At 02:57 PM 9/17/2002, Matthew Navarre wrote:
Could someone explain to me the issues with mounting the repo via a network
filesystem?
Here's what happened to us: a file was corrupted and we could not recover
older versions. (Our backup administrator failed to verify that the backup
system was in fact backing up the disk.) It delayed our development for
nearly a day while we tried to recover.
Do you want something like this to happen when a deadline is looming? Even
if your backup system is good? I thought not!
Use client-server CVS.
The technical reason for the failure has to do with locking in the
repository. Locking is a tricky thing to do in a distributed system.
Implementations often have subtle bugs.
Fred
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Frederic W. Brehm, Sarnoff Corporation, http://www.sarnoff.com/
- Re: Issues with network file systems and CVS, (continued)
- Re: Issues with network file systems and CVS, Adam Bregenzer, 2002/09/17
- Re: Issues with network file systems and CVS, Frederic Brehm, 2002/09/18
- Re: Issues with network file systems and CVS, Mike Ayers, 2002/09/18
- Re: Issues with network file systems and CVS, Eric Siegerman, 2002/09/18
- Pandora's Black Box (was: Re: Issues with network file systems and CVS), Mike Ayers, 2002/09/19
- Re: Issues with network file systems and CVS, Larry Jones, 2002/09/18
- Re: Issues with network file systems and CVS, Larry Jones, 2002/09/17
- Re: Issues with network file systems and CVS, Matthew Navarre, 2002/09/17
- Re: Issues with network file systems and CVS, Larry Jones, 2002/09/18
Re: Issues with network file systems and CVS, Mark D. Baushke, 2002/09/17
Re: Issues with network file systems and CVS,
Frederic Brehm <=