Re: CVS over NFS

[Gianni Mariani]

Shatzer, Larry wrote:

> I've looked over the archives and see that CVS+NFS = bad. But in what
> aspect? From the archives it appears where the clients access the
> repository, in a non client/server method, using NFS is bad. What if the
> server you have, running pserver/ext/ect itself is the only machine
> accessing an NFS shared directory?
>
> What I am faced with is rolling CVS out to our mid sized company, and we are
> faced with disk space issues, and have a fairly large NAS, that will have
> space allocated for CVS repositories. What I want to do is have the main
> development server running CVS, which has the CVS repository mounted via
> NFS.
This relates only to the repository, not to work areas.

My experience with NFS file locking is that it does not allways work (on 
almost any platform).  NFS file locking may have improved and it may be 
less of an issue now but there is no reason to risk it since there are 
other more reliable alternatives.  I have used pserver mode pretty much 
exclusively in installations I use and it works best for cross platform 
development.

I have used cvs work areas on nfs and cifs shares without any problems.