[cvsnt] Re: offline folder can't be updated when offline, even though server online

David Holmes dholmes at --remove-this-part-dltech.com.au
Thu Nov 11 06:36:23 GMT 2004


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I'm surprised there has been no response to this. Please note this is not
about being offline with respect to the CVS server, it is about a Windows
offline folder being used as the checkout location.

Thanks.
David Holmes

"David Holmes" <dholmes at --remove-this-part-dltech.com.au> wrote in message
news:cmpr87$ra$1 at paris.nodomain.org...
> I've tried searching for this but to no avail.
>
> Using CVSNT 2.0.51 on a Windows 2000 machine. I checkout a repository onto
a
> network mapped drive that is available offline. The cvs server is a UNIX
> box. If my windows server is offline so that the network drive is in
> "offline mode", I can't do any updates or commit etc with the cvs server,
> even though I'm still online to the server (it's the other windows box
that
> is not online).
>
> I've seen other programs get confused when they try to work with files
that
> are being made available offline, but then I also use programs that have
no
> problem - so presumably there are some differences in the API's used for
> file access in these circumstances. The error reported is:
>
> cvs [update aborted]: out of memory; can not allocate 2168995872 bytes
>
> so obviously something is getting confused.
>
> Is there a way to fix this?
>
> Thanks
> David Holmes
>
>





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