Re: Repository access woes

At 9:32 PM -0400 8/18/03, Greg Hudson wrote:
>On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 21:24, Paul Smith wrote:
> > using a CVS server to access the repository, but that the repository
> > lives on an NFS-mounted partition rather than on the server's local
> > disk.
>
> > everyone runs CVS operations directly on the repository rather than
>> through a server
>
>These two modes of operation work in basically the same way under CVS;
>if one fails, the other is likely to as well.

Really? I think it's the same code (the "cvs server" is the same
program as the "cvs client"). But in the former case, the many
copies of this program are running on the same host; in the latter,
they are running on distinct hosts. This means, I had understood,
that synchronization (via lock files, since this is CVS) can fail in
the latter case due to network timing / race conditions and NFS
implementation bugs (and misconfigurations)--failure modes that don't
arise in the first case, because they're all sharing the same mount
point and caches.

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