Re: Commits that aren't?

Tom Brunet wrote:

> My best guess is that this basically boils down to an AFS consistency
> problem. Note that in most cases, I've used best-tux.cs.wisc.edu as a
> URL - what I suddenly realized was that this picks the least loaded
> machine at the time of the query to connect to (which apparently changed
> between commands). So all the bizarre behavior, I believe, was because
> I was updating the repository on one machine and AFS wasn't consistent
> when the next command ran on another machine. Perhaps someone else has
> a setup like this that they can verify this behavior?
>

The BerkeleyDB cannot be located on an AFS mount point from multiple machines,
and probably not from a single machine either. I believe someone already posted
a link to the page on www.sleepycat.com which explains this. CVS uses a
file-based repository, so (other than file locking issues), it can utilize a
remote mounted filesystem. Subversion uses BDB, which has specific requirements
which preclude using it like that.

John

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