Re: [Monotone-devel] symlink to NFS drive vs update

[Stephen Leake]

CooSoft Support <address@hidden> writes:

>    Why not put the whole workspace on the NFS drive? You can still
> control/manage it from your build box. 

That is an option.

Unfortunately, the NFS link between RedHat Linux and Lynx is flakey. On
the whole workspace, 'mtn status' seldom goes all the way without some
problem. I've taken to running it under 'strace' so I can see when it
hangs, and "tickle" NFS by doing 'ls' on the same path in another
process; that lets mtn continue.

Plus, the Lynx disk driver is very slow compared to the Linux disk
driver. One advantage of going to a cross compilation system (we
currently to compile directly on the Lynx box) is a significant gain in
compilation speed. That would be lost if the entire workspace was on the
NFS drive.

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