[cvsnt] Solved! -- was Re: repeateable , v file corruption in 2.02, 2.03

[Jean-Francois Lamy]

Ottimo!

You got it exactly right.  Moved the repository to a partition without 
compression and the problem went away.

Jean-François Lamy
Montreal, Canada




"Flávio Etrusco" <flavio.etrusco at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.188.1159310576.338.cvsnt at cvsnt.org...
Aren't you using NTFS compression? This "xDF" value looks a bit too
much of a coincidence to a bug recently introduced by a MS patch for
Windows 2000.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925308/


-Flávio

On 9/26/06, Tony Hoyle <tony.hoyle at march-hare.com> wrote:
> Jean-Francois Lamy wrote:
>
> > Specifics:  Server is running on Windows 2000, fully patched. 
> > Repository is
> > on a file system with NTFS file compression enabled.
>
> Any antivirus etc.?  Sounds suspiciously like the kind of thing AV could
> do.  I'd even be checking hardware.
>
> Commit of a nonmodified file does not modify the repository, however it
> does read it, and something could be attempting to make its own
> modifications.
>
> btw. I assume your RCS directory isn't compressed as performance would
> be terrible on such a repository.
>
> Tony
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