[It would be more user-friendly to make this check when we first look
at -T/TMPDIR/&c.  You kind of have to know how CVS is implemented to
make any sense of "Cannot check out files into the repository itself".

-kingdon]

Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 14:47:11 +0300
From: Mikhail Soukhanov <mik@astra.relline.ru>
Organization: VNIIgeosystem
To: info-cvs@gnu.org
Subject: Re:[No space left on device]Unix/Windows client/server setup

Thanks for your answer.

I created a /cvs/root/tmp directory with lots of disk space available
and added -T option to inetd.conf:

cvspserver  stream  tcp  nowait  root  /usr/local/cvs/bin/cvs  cvs -T
/cvs/root/tmp --allow-root=/cvs/root pserver

and imported my source tree ok. But then it turned out to be a run-once
solution. Every next command, e.g. checkout (which worked in the
pre-"-T" times) returns error:

C:\>cvs checkout module
cvs [server aborted]: Cannot check out files into the repository itself

Temporarily, I edited inetd.conf back to original and checkout started
work again. As for me, it is ok till the next import. But what was wrong
there, any clue?

Thanks again,
		Mikhail Soukhanov <mik@astra.relline.ru.>

Cameron, Steve wrote:
>         [Cameron, Steve]  Just a guess, probably it is /tmp on the unix host
> that's full.  Nowadays, many unix's set up /tmp as a memory mapped
> filesystem for speed, but this causes it to be quite small.  (Unixware 2
> does this, and I think Solaris does as well, by default).  Most of the time
> this is a good thing, though on reboot, everything in /tmp disappears
> 
>         What you should do is create a temporary directory specially for CVS
> somewhere on a partition with lots of space, then tell CVS to use it by
> using the -T option wherever CVS is invoked on the server side.  (i.e.  from
> within /etc/inetd.conf.)
> 
>         Hope this helps.
> 
>         -- Steve