Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Aug 1998 10:28:09 -0400 (EWT) | From | Alex Buell <> | Subject | Re: Networkhood file system |
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On Sat, 29 Aug 1998 doctor@fruitbat.org wrote:
> As a user of ClearCase at work, I just want to add that you pay a > very, VERY high cost in CPU, Network and local disk space for that > ability. Atria implemented their own filesystem (called Multiple > Versioned File System (MVFS)) which hooks into the kernel as a kernel > extension (under Unix implementations). The implementation is such > that each user has a "view" of the filesystems being accessed. These > views are maintained using a combination of local disk and remote > lookup for all filesystem accesses. Even on high end machines the > speed is painfully slow. If you think NFS is slow, then you don't > even want to considder the speed of a ClearCase filesystem. IMHO, > there are better ways of doing this.
It's horrible. I have to suffer by using ClearCase at Raytheon, and there are a *lot* of complaints that the intranet is completely saturated by about 200-300 of us using ClearCase.
Give me a good old cvs-based system any time.
Cheers, Alex -- /\_/\ Legalise cannabis now! ( o.o ) Grow some cannabis today! > ^ < Peace, Love, Unity and Respect to all.
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