High Availability of hg web server through NFS share

[Martin Geisler]

Christophe Furmaniak <christophe.furmaniak.ml at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to provide high availability of a mercurial "central"
> repository using several (at least 2) apache web servers + hgweb.cgi
> that would serve a shared NFS partition.
>
> Will it work as expected or may I encounter some kind of locks because
> of the shared NFS partition?

Like Isaac commented, you wont see optimal performance when using a
network drive. Have you considered letting each webserver use its own
local repository and then synchronizing the two (or more) repositories
with normal 'hg pull' commands?

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