Re: CVS Best Practice: cvs in conjunction with nfs?

[Peter Toft]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:

> Hi;
>
> Summary: CVS Best Practice: cvs in conjunction with nfs?
>
> I recall from long ago being advised not to nfs mount the cvs repository.

Hi guys

I have been using CVS with NFS for many years with SSH as a bearer in a
multi-country setup for a large telecom - I have not seen any problems.
Only problem seen has been lost lock files once in a while, which had to 
be removed. And we have had our fair share of network trashing - as anyone 
else has from time to time. Our bottleneck has not been cvs for sure.
Our NFS servers are netapp boxes.

So the other replies in the same thread puzzle me a bit.

:)

/peter

> I recall from long ago being advised to never build on an nfs partition.
>
> Are either or both of these "wise proverbs" still pertinent today?
>
> Lets say we are using a recent Linux kernel, or Solaris 9 or Solaris 10;
> does the advice still hold?
>
> Thanks,
> Kenneth A. Wolcott

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