Re: Multiple clients accessing git over NFS

Khawaja Shams <kshams <at> usc.edu> writes:

  Is it a recommended practice to share a repository over NFS, where
multiple clients can be pushing changes simultaneously?  In our
production environment, we have a Git repository setup behind
git-http-backend. We would like to place multiple Apache servers
behind a load balancer to maximize availability and performance.
Before we proceed, we wanted to check to see if this practice has a
potential to cause repository corruption. If there are other ways
others have solved this problem, we would be very interested in
learning about those as well. Thank you.

Others have commented on the git aspects of this, but FYI there is a handy
program here: http://www.unixcoding.org/NFSCoding#NFS_Cache_Tester
that tests aspects of your NFS implementation. (Sadly the one we have
at work is crap, or at least it was last time I ran the program).

Alex