From: Alex <ajb44.geo@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:47:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Multiple clients accessing git over NFS
Message-ID: <loom.20101116T144422-559@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimyFkVFAw4s2fiWKZFPvnx15K6U6GbxmRgznx7Z@mail.gmail.com>


Khawaja Shams <kshams <at> usc.edu> writes:

> 
>   Is it a recommended practice to share a repository over NFS, where
> multiple clients can be pushing changes simultaneously?  In our
> production environment, we have a Git repository setup behind
> git-http-backend. We would like to place multiple Apache servers
> behind a load balancer to maximize availability and performance.
> Before we proceed, we wanted to check to see if this practice has a
> potential to cause repository corruption. If there are other ways
> others have solved this problem, we would be very interested in
> learning about those as well. Thank you.
> 


Others have commented on the git aspects of this, but FYI there is a handy
program here: http://www.unixcoding.org/NFSCoding#NFS_Cache_Tester
that tests aspects of your NFS implementation. (Sadly the one we have
at work is crap, or at least it was last time I ran the program).

Alex