On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:41:13AM -0700, John Polstra wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Yep, you are right. cvs writes the shadow stuff in /tmp. bleah.
-Jon
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