Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:01:51 -0000 (GMT) | From | Anton Ivanov <> | Subject | Re: Transparent mounts |
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Hi,
Lots of the stuff suggested/discussed sound like Rational's filesystem for clearcase. If I recall correctly what they do is provide two interfaces for access
1. Non-per user - accessible as a normal mounted fs which are mounted if the view is active. 2. Per user which I think is actually cheating the user process by intercepting functions (this is what the user sees after setting a view with cleartool).
(My familiarity with CC is mostly at the user level so any gurus please correct me).
So the suggestion is:
1. Leave the per-user stuff to a pre-load library (and or set of utilities) that uses some API to the underlying fs to chose exactly what it shows to the user process.
2. The transparent mounts themselves when mounted as filesystems to are not per user and they are configurable what they show during the mount operation.
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