[p4] p4 and NFS?

[David Weintraub]

Officially, NFS is highly discouraged by Perforce. Mainly because NFS
use to not do file locking, so it was easy to corrupt the database.

However, I've used NFS for both the depot source area and the database
without any corruption issues, and there was even a white paper by
NetApps explaining how they did it. You *must* use NFS 3.0 or 4.0 and
not NFS 2.0 because NFS 2.0 doesn't do file locking.

There will be performance degradation simply because of the network
nature of the depot and possibly the database. When you have to go
over a network, it will be slower than if it was a fiber connection
directly to the Linux server. We had our depot and database on a
NetApps box and not just another Linux system, so I can't say how
"slow" or "fast" the connection will be. I guess it depends upon the
amount of traffic on the network and the speed of the network.


On 4/17/07, mikee <mikee at mikee.ath.cx> wrote:
> Is it permissible and if so how does p4 perform when
> p4 is on one linux box using a depot that is NFS
> mounted from another linux box?
>
> Mike
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