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Re: hosting git on a nfs

From
David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Date
Nov 12, 2008, 17:36 UTC
Message-ID
<20081112173651.GA9127@linode.davidb.org>
In-Reply-To
<200811121029.34841.thomas@koch.ro>
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:29:34AM +0100, Thomas Koch wrote:
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>finally I managed to convince a critical mass of developers (our chief
>dev :-) in our company so that we are starting to migrate to GIT.
>
>The final question is, whether GIT will life peacefully on our cluster
>fileservers. The GIT repository dir (/var/cache/git) should be mounted
>via NFS via PAN on top of DRBD (so I was told).
>
>Are there any known problems with this setup? We're asking, because
>there are problems with SVN on such a setup[1].

We had occasionally run into locking problems with 1.5.4.x with renames between different directories. This should be fixed in 1.6.0.3, but we have since migrated to a server model so I don't have any way of testing this.

None of these problems ever caused repository corruption, only errors during fetch/clone that were resolved by repeating the operation.

Using ssh: or git: does seem to be a bit faster than NFS. The configuration we did find completely unworkable was using git with the work tree on NFS.

David
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Message 4 of 44 in “hosting git on a nfs”
  1. Thomas KochNov 12, 2008
  2. Julian PhillipsNov 12, 2008
  3. Brandon CaseyNov 12, 2008
  4. David BrownNov 12, 2008
  5. Linus TorvaldsNov 12, 2008
  6. J. Bruce FieldsNov 13, 2008
  7. James PickensNov 13, 2008
  8. Linus TorvaldsNov 13, 2008
  9. Linus TorvaldsNov 13, 2008
  10. James PickensNov 13, 2008
  11. Linus TorvaldsNov 13, 2008
  12. Julian PhillipsNov 13, 2008
  13. Linus TorvaldsNov 13, 2008
  14. Julian PhillipsNov 14, 2008
  15. Brandon CaseyNov 14, 2008
  16. Linus TorvaldsNov 14, 2008
  17. Pieter de BieNov 14, 2008
  18. Linus TorvaldsNov 14, 2008
  19. James PickensNov 14, 2008
  20. Linus TorvaldsNov 14, 2008
  21. Michael J GruberNov 14, 2008
  22. Kyle MoffettNov 14, 2008
  23. Brandon CaseyNov 14, 2008
  24. Linus TorvaldsNov 14, 2008
  25. Junio C HamanoNov 14, 2008
  26. Linus TorvaldsNov 14, 2008
  27. Makefile: introduce NO_PTHREADSJunio C Hamano, Nov 15, 2008
  28. Linus TorvaldsNov 15, 2008
  29. Mike RalphsonNov 17, 2008
  30. Junio C HamanoNov 17, 2008
  31. Johannes SixtNov 17, 2008
  32. Mike RalphsonNov 17, 2008
  33. Johannes SixtNov 17, 2008
  34. Johannes SixtDec 1, 2008
  35. dhruvaDec 1, 2008
  36. Mike RalphsonDec 1, 2008
  37. Makefile: introduce NO_PTHREADSMike Ralphson, Dec 1, 2008
  38. Makefile: introduce NO_PTHREADSMike Ralphson, Dec 1, 2008
  39. Johannes SixtDec 2, 2008
  40. Junio C HamanoDec 3, 2008
  41. Junio C HamanoNov 17, 2008
  42. Linus TorvaldsNov 17, 2008
  43. Fix index preloading for racy dirty caseLinus Torvalds, Nov 17, 2008
  44. Junio C HamanoNov 17, 2008

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