checkout/commit onto/from shared disks.

2003-06-17 Thread David Bowring
Hi, I'd like to start by thanking everyone for the advice I've received from previous posts...so thank you all. Alas, I once more seek your advice though. I intend to build a clustered linux solution for our developers to use. This would comprise of one central server upon which all the

Re: checkout/commit onto/from shared disks.

2003-06-17 Thread thomas . maciejewski
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RE: checkout/commit onto/from shared disks.

2003-06-17 Thread David Bowring
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 June 2003 13:10 To: David Bowring Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: checkout/commit onto/from shared disks. what is your concern? The only one that I can see would be large files with frequent changes over

Re: checkout/commit onto/from shared disks.

2003-06-17 Thread Max Bowsher
David Bowring wrote: My concerns were merely that I had heard noises about using CVS on disk shares and was worried (in some part) about corruption, though I could not foresee it. All the clustered machines will be on a Gigabit backbone, so this should negate the network throughput issue.

Re: checkout/commit onto/from shared disks.

2003-06-17 Thread Riechers, Matthew W
Max Bowsher wrote: David Bowring wrote: My concerns were merely that I had heard noises about using CVS on disk shares and was worried (in some part) about corruption, though I could not foresee it. All the clustered machines will be on a Gigabit backbone, so this should negate the

Re: checkout/commit onto/from shared disks.

2003-06-17 Thread Larry Jones
David Bowring writes: My concern is being that each of our developers home directories will be a disk share from the central machine, and all the checkout/commit will be done via pserver onto these shares (I am considering using NFS to create the shares). If anyone can give me any guidance

Re: checkout/commit onto/from shared disks.

2003-06-17 Thread Larry Jones
Riechers, Matthew W writes: As anecdotal evidence, I'd submit that I have been hosting several sandboxes on NFS shares for years without incident. As long as the path between the client and server is not over a network sharing system, you shouldn't have a problem. NFS mounted working

Re: checkout/commit onto/from shared disks.

2003-06-17 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 10:27:21 (-0400), Larry Jones wrote: ] Subject: Re: checkout/commit onto/from shared disks. All of the known NFS problems are interoperability problems between different NFS implementations. Well there can also be generic NFS problems between server and client

Re: checkout/commit onto/from shared disks.

2003-06-17 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 13:03:52 (+0100), David Bowring wrote: ] Subject: checkout/commit onto/from shared disks. This would comprise of one central server upon which all the developers home directories and cvs server would reside. They will be logged into any one of many machines

Re: checkout/commit onto/from shared disks.

2003-06-17 Thread Larry Jones
Greg A. Woods writes [quoting me]: All of the known NFS problems are interoperability problems between different NFS implementations. Well there can also be generic NFS problems between server and client of the same implementation. For example NetBSD has full support for file locking

Re: checkout/commit onto/from shared disks.

2003-06-17 Thread Kristopher Hollingsworth
Hollingsworth --- Greg A. Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ On Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 13:03:52 (+0100), David Bowring wrote: ] Subject: checkout/commit onto/from shared disks. This would comprise of one central server upon which all the developers home directories and cvs server would reside

Re: checkout/commit onto/from shared disks.

2003-06-17 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 11:38:41 (-0700), Kristopher Hollingsworth wrote: ] Subject: Re: checkout/commit onto/from shared disks. This is more or less what I'm trying to set up, Checkout/commit over a small LAN here. Everything would be over shared drives, but I don't know how

Re: checkout/commit onto/from shared disks.

2003-06-17 Thread Kristopher Hollingsworth
Yeh... That'd be nice, I'll see what I can't talk them in to doing... Oh well, Thanks for the help, it's appreciated. -Kristopher G. Hollingsworth --- Greg A. Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you're in the wrong newsgroup/mailing-list. As far as I know this CVS doesn't run

RE: checkout/commit onto/from shared disks.

2003-06-17 Thread Bert Robbins
A. Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 4:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: CVS-II Discussion Mailing List Subject: Re: checkout/commit onto/from shared disks. [ On Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 11:38:41 (-0700), Kristopher Hollingsworth wrote: ] Subject: Re: checkout/commit