From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 27 13: 9:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7E6D37B498 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:09:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3078A43E88 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:09:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id gARL9aYd145650; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:09:36 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:09:35 -0500 To: "Paul A. Scott" , Dan Nelson From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Problem pulling particular directory from CVS Cc: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 1:43 PM -0800 11/26/02, Paul A. Scott wrote: > > From: Dan Nelson > > Are you maybe running out of space on your local drive? You might > > also have a corrupted CVS repo, but I don't think you'd be getting > > those errors in that case. > >No, I have over 40GB available on the filesystem. > >CVSROOT is set to :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs >so, if the repository is corrupt, then someone else has to fix it. It's possible that it's the /tmp directory on the remote side which is running out of disk space. CVS does not work well over a remote connection, when dealing with a very large repository. If I had 40-gig to play with, I would much rather cvsup the CVS tree to my local hard disks, and then CVS to *that* repository. In fact, that's exactly what I do, on all my freebsd machines (except my sparc), and most of my machines have less than 10-gig available. This is much better for everyone involved, if you have an extra 2 gig or so that you can use for holding the repository. (extra in addition to the space you'll need for /usr/src when you check it out from your copy of the repository). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message