> --On Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:43 PM -0500 Larry Jones > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What makes :local: inadvisable is the disk not being local, but rather > > being on some kind of network filesystem. I don't know of any way to > > detect that. > > But *why* is that bad? After all, a SCSI disk is on the other end of a SCSI > cable, and so is "networked" in some sense. Why is that ok but a "network" > disk is not? > Because it empirically doesn't work reliably. Every time I can remember that somebody was complaining about repository corruption (or something that wound up being repository corruption) it turned out that he or she was using :local: with the repository NFS-mounted.
I admit that this is a very informal study, and do not claim to have a perfect memory, but I've heard enough complaints that I would never NFS-mount a repository and use :local:. Repositories are usually valuable, and screwing them up is normally a Bad Thing. I don't know how often it would happen, but once might well be too much. If I hear similar complaints where the repository was SCSI-mounted rather than NFS-mounted, I'll be happy to consider that. AFAIK, nobody knows exactly why NFS can mess with a repository, and it happens rarely enough that nobody's really caught it in the act. -- Now building a CVS reference site at http://www.thornleyware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
