Spreading repository across disks

[jce]

It gets a bit stranger.

Instead of using rsync -av to make a copy of the repository, i tried
cp -Rp

After the copy , i made the directory a symlink to its location on the
new drive.

This time updates worked! but add/commits failed.

bizarre.

[Todd Denniston]

Post by jce
It gets a bit stranger.
Instead of using rsync -av to make a copy of the repository, i tried
cp -Rp
After the copy , i made the directory a symlink to its location on the
new drive.
This time updates worked! but add/commits failed.
bizarre.

instead of a softlink you might try:
mount --bind /new/repo/location/ /old/repo/location/

and see if it works...

which cvs version is on Ubuntu 8?

in the cvs News file
"Changes from 1.11.9 to 1.11.10:
...
* CVSROOTs which contain a symlink to a real repository should work.
...
"

And here I was thinking that I recalled the devs taking that out in the 11
series because of some security concern.

[Larry Jones]

Post by jce
This time updates worked! but add/commits failed.

Failed how? What's the exact error you get?

[Larry Jones]

Post by Todd Denniston
in the cvs News file
...
* CVSROOTs which contain a symlink to a real repository should work.

That's symlinks in the path *to* the repository, not symlinks inside the
repository.

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Post by jce
This time updates worked! but add/commits failed.

Failed how? What's the exact error you get?