versioning Linux config files on two servers with cross-mounted /home folder

[Harald Meland]

[Rahul Nabar]

> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Harald Meland
> <harald.meland at usit.uio.no> wrote:
>>
>>  If your repo is placed somewhere on the cross-mounted file system
>>  (e.g. as ~/.bzr/repository/, which would be the result of running "bzr
>>  init ~"), then you already have an "integrated repo" that's accessible
>> from both servers.
>
> Thanks for the response, Harald! Yes, it is at that location.
> Question: I don't redo a bzr init on the second installation,
> correct?

No, the file system has already been "bzr init"ed once, bzr doesn't
care about (or even know) which server the "bzr init" command was
issued on.

> Just install bzr and my bzr inventory should reflect exactly what I
> see on serverA?

Yes (though you should make sure the clocks on your servers are in
sync; I think clock skew could lead to bad bzr performance).

> {How would the bzr on serverB know the location of the
> inventory, though;the only time I remember specifying it on serverA
> was during the init.}

Hmm, I'm not sure what you're talking about when you say "inventory"
here.  Bzr does have an internal concept that goes by that name, but I
don't think its on-disk storage location is ever exposed through the
user interface.

What does "bzr info ~" report when you run it on server A?  If it says
"Standalone tree", there should be no trouble accessing the same
bzr-managed data by running bzr on both servers.
-- 
Harald