[darcs-devel] [darcs #433] darcs is unable to operate with a repository on OpenAFS

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Wed Jun 08 10:42:53 2005: New ticket: 433.
Transaction: Ticket created by guest
       Queue: Darcs
     Subject: darcs is unable to operate with a repository on OpenAFS
       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: wes at senortoad.com
      Status: new
 Ticket <URL: http://bugs.darcs.net/.//Ticket/Display.html?id=433 >

wchow at milhouse:~/temp/t $ darcs init

Fail: takeLock: unsupported operation (Invalid cross-device link)


darcs works if I set DARCS_SLOPPY_LOCKS=1 as per:
http://www.abridgegame.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2004-July/002399.html

For reasons beyond my understanding, an AFS subdirectory is treated as a
different mount than the parent, despite being on the same volume. 
Since hard linking doesn't make sense across different mounts, darcs is
barfing.  I don't know if it's actually related, but this seems like a
resonable explanation:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libtool/2002-12/msg00017.html

Sorry if I'm goofed up this bug report in any way.. I'm a 1 day old
darcs user :)