Re: Repository access woes

%% Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

>> If Marcus was talking about a CVS repository shared via NFS where
>> everyone runs CVS operations directly on the repository rather than
>> through a server

  gh> These two modes of operation work in basically the same way under
  gh> CVS; if one fails, the other is likely to as well. The CVS server
  gh> accesses the repository in the same way a CVS process accesses it
  gh> directly. (As best I understand CVS, anyway.)

I don't think this true: with a server implementation only one single
host is accessing the repository regardless of how many different
clients are running CVS operations. This is inherently safer than lots
of different hosts accessing the repository directly.

>> likely an issue for any large-scale SVN use.

  gh> Please avoid sweeping generalizations like that one; a great deal
  gh> of large-scale use of CVS does not involve NFS in any way.

You're right: "any" was far too strong; I apologize. However, I'm
familiar with a lot of larger companies and as a rule they are moving
away from local disk and towards NAS-style solutions. The latter is
much simpler to back up, generally more reliable, and less expensive.
It's not that unusual for companies to require that all critical data
live on NAS.

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