>>> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 11:49 AM, in message
<94a776e70701300949j3598e7d8tca3ab6467c3511bf@mail.gmail.com>, "Justin Johnson"
<justinjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/29/07, Justin Johnson <justinjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > I am using FSFS. I was planning on having the filesystem mounted on
>> > > two systems at the same time, but only so we can quickly fail over if
>> > > one goes down. Won't the repository be corrupted if two servers are
>> > > actively writing to the same repository at the same time? If not, I
>> > > am confused as to how.
>> > >
>> >
>> > It's been explained to me that the with FSFS format, the file locking with
> the Subversion binaries the transaction files in the FSFS directories keep
> things in check. But this means putting a set of Subversion binaries on each
> server and not the NFS mount. However, the binaries don't require much
> configuration. As you said, hooks scripts and other stuff involving the
> repositories themselves is where all the configuration occurs.
>>
>> Wow, that would be great! Can someone else confirm this for me and
>> explain how it works or point me to something I can read about it?
>> Why would this work only if the binaries aren't on the NFS mount? I
>> can see the need for different configuration files in Apache due to
>> different host names for the servers. Is there some other reason the
>> binaries would need to be off of the NFS mount?
>
> In addition to needing confirmation about whether multiple servers can
> write to a repository on the same disk NFS mounted on all of the
> servers, I am also concerned about NFS in general. The notes at
> http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/fsfs in the "Locking"
> section indicate that there might be some issues with NFS. Can anyone
> confirm or deny this? Are any issues with with FSFS repositories and
> NFS/NAS, any special NFS mount options, performance issues, etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
Yeah, I had mentioned that as well one time back in a posting here, I was quickly told that wasn't the case any more and that the book needs to be updated there because of FSFS.
Johnathan
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