From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 5 11:55:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wrs.com (unknown-1-11.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77A8E37B403; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:55:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@[147.11.46.201]) by mail.wrs.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA11197; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:54:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200109051841.f85IfDi07918@vashon.polstra.com> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 11:54:47 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: John Polstra Subject: Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none Cc: jon@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-Sep-01 John Polstra wrote: > In article <20010905143718.F28669@enterprise.spock.org>, > Jonathan Chen 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 -- 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