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NFS mounted repo fails

Asked by Paul Coene

Hi guys.

I wanted to create the repository on another machine and NFS mount that directory.

I am new to bzr, so what I came up with was creating the repo out on that mounted directory and the having the user create a symbolic link from thjeir copy (ala ln -s /mnt/repo/.bzr .bzr).

This seems to work great, but....

When we do a revert, we get:

bzr: ERROR: Failed to rename /home/eqemu/server/quests/oggok/Soonog.pl to /home/eqemu/server/quests/.bzr/checkout/limbo/new-1: [Errno 18] Invalid cross-device link

Is there a better way to do what I am doing? I realize a mv isn't going to work accross devices, but I really want the repo out on the server.

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John A Meinel (jameinel) said : 		#1

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On 2013-05-02 22:56, Paul Coene wrote:
> New question #228036 on Bazaar:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/bzr/+question/228036
>
> Hi guys.
>
> I wanted to create the repository on another machine and NFS mount
> that directory.
>
> I am new to bzr, so what I came up with was creating the repo out
> on that mounted directory and the having the user create a symbolic
> link from thjeir copy (ala ln -s /mnt/repo/.bzr .bzr).
>
> This seems to work great, but....
>
> When we do a revert, we get:
>
> bzr: ERROR: Failed to rename
> /home/eqemu/server/quests/oggok/Soonog.pl to
> /home/eqemu/server/quests/.bzr/checkout/limbo/new-1: [Errno 18]
> Invalid cross-device link
>
> Is there a better way to do what I am doing? I realize a mv isn't
> going to work accross devices, but I really want the repo out on
> the server.
>

You can have a shared repository on the network mounted drive, and a
local checkout of it. That gives you local files for working (for both
speed and 1-filesystem), but has the history archived on the shared
location.

John
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