Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla on nfs only

[Aaron Bentley]

Brian May wrote:

> > > > > > "Anders" == Anders Rune Jensen <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > > >            
>
>    Anders> Since this seems to be the only option I tried addeding a
>    Anders> revision library to /tmp and then add a script to crontab
>    Anders> which touches the files every hour to make sure they are
>    Anders> not deleted. Unfortuanatly it doesn't work. I get the same
>    Anders> errors as before, this time just in the temp directory.
>
> Is touching files in a revision library OK?
>
> I had a suspicion that the file date&time was recorded and compared to
> ensure the file hadn't been altered, I could be mistaken though...
>  
It's *very* not okay to alter the modification time of files in a 
revlib.  The files in a revision library are supposed to be completely 
unchanged, so we know they're a good basis for comparison.  If a file's 
modification date changes, that usually means the file has changed, so 
the revision library is corrupt.

Aaron