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Re: Samba - CVS Problem
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: Samba - CVS Problem |
Date: |
Fri, 1 Dec 2006 11:20:01 -0500 (EST) |
Georg.Tenckhoff@zf.com writes:
>
> we are running a mixed environment with hpux'es, linux and windows XP
> machines. The HPux disks can be accessed via samba from the XP world.
> Introducing a cvs repository sited on one of the linux machines (V 1.11)
> we experienced a problem with some of the Hpux shares but not all of
> them: committing files to the repository from commandline as well as
> with tortoise (1.8.29 Plink Release 0.56) results in files of equaly
> large size of 1.384.649 KB (1414807896 Bytes exactly) independent of
> what the original size was.
DO NOT USE SAMBA (or any other network file system) TO ACCESS YOUR
REPOSITORY! Particularly not in a heterogeneous environment.
Essentially *every* report of repository corruption we've ever seen has
been due to network file system interoperability problems. Use CVS in
client/server mode instead:
<http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.22/cvs_2.html#SEC26>
-Larry Jones
How am I supposed to learn surgery if I can't dissect anything? -- Calvin