Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 11:54:47 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: jon@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none Message-ID: <XFMail.010905115447.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200109051841.f85IfDi07918@vashon.polstra.com>
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On 05-Sep-01 John Polstra wrote: > In article <20010905143718.F28669@enterprise.spock.org>, > Jonathan Chen <jon@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:54:20AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: >> > - You need an MFS filesystem with zillions of inodes, because >> > anonymous CVS just hammers the disk with tiny lock files or state >> > files. If they are on a drive that has moving parts, your system >> > will tear itself apart. >> >> setting CVSREADONLYFS to 1 will prevent locking. This also means you don't >> need to give the anoncvs user write access to the lock directory. I >> presume this is where most of the anoncvs hogness lies, so this should make >> it go quite a bit faster. > > Nope. Anoncvs.freebsd.org already has/had CVSREADONLYFS set, but > that did not eliminate the need for the MFS. If I recall correctly, > remote CVS creates a shadow checkout tree of CVS/ directories and > their administrative files for each client. That's what hammers the > disk on the server. Yeah, it does. Likes to put it in /tmp too. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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