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SubjectRe: Transparent mounts
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I seem to remember that clearcase does eclipse files, and its
not so easy to discover what it eclipsed unless one uses clearcases
own versions of ls, etc., which means 2 ls commands in effect.

(I may be wrong here...its been a while since i used clearcase)
--Sunil

-----Original Message-----
From: Anton Ivanov <aivanov@eu.level3.net>
To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>; Riley Williams
<rhw@memalpha.cx>
Date: Thursday, November 18, 1999 12:07 PM
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.
>
>- ----------------------------------
>Anton R. Ivanov
>IP Engineer Level3 Communications
>RIPE: ARI2-RIPE E-Mail: Anton Ivanov <aivanov@eu.level3.net>
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> tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very
> expensive machine, is somehow ennobled, and no one dares to
> criticize it.
>
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