Re: pathological cvs recursion ?

["Gary Duzan" <gary%duzan.org@localhost>]

In Message <20151218115627.40e521d7cf90a5467164ab17%pandora.be@localhost>,
   dieter roelants <dieter.NetBSD%pandora.be@localhost>wrote:

=>On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 16:50:49 -0800
=>bch <brad.harder%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
=>
=>> I've run into this a few times:
=>> 
=>> U external/bsd/libc++/dist/libcxx/test/libcxx/experimental/containers/sequences/src/external/gpl3/binutils/dist/opcodes/aarch64-tbl.h
=>> 
=>> 
=>> where there are sub-trees seem to be recursively re-added (see
=>> .../src/external/gpl3... as part of ./src/external/bsd/...).
=>> 
=>> Has anybody else experienced this ? Does anybody know what's going on ?
=>
=>Hi Brad,
=>
=>I'm almost certain it's because the CVS server has its temp directory
=>on a tmpfs. I got reports of the same issue back wen I ran a CVS mirror
=>and I "fixed" it by changing the tmpfs to an mfs mount. See also PR 46148.

   Thanks for the pointer. I got rid of the tmpfs and at least a
few updates have gone through cleanly. If anyone has any ideas of
how to track this down, I can certainly take a whack at it. It
would be nice to know that this isn't going to be a problem for
other uses of tmpfs.

				Gary Duzan