Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:09:40 +0300 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: linux-2.5.4-pre1 - bitkeeper testing |
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Andrew Pimlott wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:58:45AM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: > >>Clearcase handles all of this in the filesystem, and it all works pretty >>much reasonably. >> > >This is misleading--Clearcase stores versions on top a normal >filesystem (like most other RCS's), and all manipulation is entirely >in user-space (over the network to server processes). There only >filesystem magic is that there are directories you cannot list (plus >permission semantics are a little funny). > >Seems very different from what you're proposing, IIUC. > >Andrew > > I am sorry, but arguing over whether network filesystems have their functionality outside the filesystem is not an argument I respect enough to engage in. Clearcase is a filesystem. Views are built into the filesystem. It has user space utilities. It is still a filesystem despite having user space utilities, and its functionality is in the filesystem.
Hans
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