question regarding bazaar

[Talden]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 4:12 AM, Harald Meland <harald.meland at usit.uio.no> wrote:
> [Ville M. Vainio]
>
>  > You are not supposed to do "bzr status" over nfs.
>
>  Why not?  Doesn't Bazaar working trees on NFS work properly?
>
>  If the matter is just that NFS working trees are somewhat slower than
>  local disk ones, I don't think such a state of affairs would indicate
>  that "you're not supposed to do that"; it's more like "if you do that,
>  you should expect somewhat reduced performance".

The inconsistency of posix locking capability on NFS implementations
and the risk of becoming disconnected in the middle of a Bazaar
operation should be considered.

Also I still don't quite get the model Mohit Aron's using.  If they
have a single central branch with a working-tree how do they avoid
developers accidentally committing or modifying uncommitted work of
other developers?  Surely they should still have their own workspace
(in which case they can have their own tree-less branch and a local
checkout solving the NFS working-tree performance problem).

--
Talden