Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 08:33:21 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -R for make update ? Message-ID: <20010523083321.A4293@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <20010522144242.A29988@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:42:42PM -0700 References: <20010521194828.A789@freebie.demon.nl> <3B0A46CF.9D0CB622@mindspring.com> <20010522125919.D27648@xor.obsecurity.org> <15114.51414.50651.695529@nomad.yogotech.com> <20010522144242.A29988@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:42:42PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:15:18PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > > > > > Is there any specific reason why one needs to be able to > > > > > write a lock to the CVS repo when running 'make update' > > > > > to get a freshly checked out source? > > > > > > > > Yeah: you aren't running your CVS server in "pserver" > > > > mode, and so are trying to do a lock, either in your > > > > local copy, or over NFS. > > > > > > > > If you run your repository in pserver mode, the CVS server > > > > will be connected to over the network, instead of attacking > > > > your CVS repo directly, and you won't have the problem you > > > > are seeing, since the cvs server will be able to get the > > > > lock, no problem. > > > > > > It will also be freakishly slow, and use massive amounts of temp > > > space. > > > > No slower than cvs using rsh/ssh, although it does tend to create alot > > of inodes in /tmp. (It doesn't create alot of temp space, other than > > what is used to create the directories...) > > Yes, using rsh/ssh is also slow, but we were talking about *local* > access, which has none of those drawbacks. -R makes cvs operations go Yes, this is a local repo indeed. > quite a bit faster, and AFAIK is perfectly safe if you're using a > private repo for which you know there will be no contention. W/ -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Powered by FreeBSD/alpha http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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