[cvsnt] Re: CVSNT and Storage area networks

[Tony Hoyle]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:17:51 +1200, "Andrew Corbett"
<ACorbett at navman.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
> 
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>Our IT department is moving to a model where the applications and their
>storage are separated;  the applications run on an application server
>and the storage is on a SAN (storage area network).  I've read in
>various places that it is not good to run CVSNT with the repository
>stored on a network share.  In our case, I think the SAN will look like
>a network share.  Does anyone have any experience with using cvsnt with
>a SAN?  Does anyone know whether this will work (reliably) or not?
>
I believe a SAN should be OK - the problem is with the network
protocols (samba/NFS) and AFAIK a SAN looks like a local drive to CVS.

Tony