swinstall session via cifsmount

[rtlplus]

Hi Folks,

I would like to do to start swinstall, where the source depot is a cifsmounted directory
( CD-Rom of my local PC). If I start the session swinstall hangs during "Reading the software source".
Any idea how to solve this ?

Greetings

Mirko

[harry d brown jr]

Can you cd into or list the directory where you have your depot (the cd on your pc)? Does it take a long time?

Try doing a "du -sk "

see how long it takes. CD's are slow.

[Stefan Farrelly]

CIFS doesnt seem to able to reliably cope with the large amounts of data, and fast retreival, Software Distributor requires. I would not recommend using CIFS mounted filesystems for SD tasks.

[rtlplus]

Hi,

it is quiet fast, means not much slower like
a local CD Drive.
Have you ever done swinstall from a cifsmounted
directory ?

Mirko

[harry d brown jr]

Is the depot you are attempting to install a depot file, or a depot repository?

[Wodisch]

Hello Mirko,

IIRC, then "swinstall" tries some file-and-record locking on the depot - this will not work with CIFS/9000 I am afraid.
It might be possible with a depot-file, though...

Just my $0.02,
Wodisch