Re: using hotcopy through a network drive

Gavin Lambert wrote:
>
> I have no solid evidence one way or the other, but I'd be very
> suspicious of it myself.
>
> My understanding is that file locks are unreliable across a network (I
> forget whether it's the Windows networking or the Linux networking
> protocols that are particularly bad in this regard). Without reliable
> file locks, I can't think of a way that hotcopy could safely replicate
> the repository. I'm not saying it can't work, I'm just saying that I'd
> be surprised if it did. But I've been surprised before :)

This link (a bit) old, seems to confirm both of your suspicions for BDB:

http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2004-05/0434.shtml

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Received on Thu Aug 3 19:15:36 2006