From: Brandon Casey Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:31:16 GMT Subject: Re: hosting git on a nfs Message-ID: <9ww97aHlVPEurT6kkb9TAxOaH5OSLhFQTgI4LcQRGzCQgkut0VsbwQ@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil> In-Reply-To: Julian Phillips wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Thomas Koch wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> 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]. >> >> [1] http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#nfs > > I've been running git on NFS for years (though it's only NFS exported > software RAID), and the only issue I've encountered is that it's not > quite as blisteringly fast as running git on a local disk. ditto. (except for the years part) -brandon