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Date:      Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:26:07 +0000
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
To:        "Reini (Reinhold Huber)" <Reinhold.Huber@Fachschaften.TU-Muenchen.DE>
Cc:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: multi-version FS
Message-ID:  <19980217122607.54902@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.91.980217125323.7706A-100000@eddie.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>; from Reini (Reinhold Huber) on Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 01:12:40PM %2B0100
References:  <199802170911.JAA14813@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <Pine.ULT.3.91.980217125323.7706A-100000@eddie.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>

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On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 01:12:40PM +0100, Reini (Reinhold Huber) wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> 
> > Yesterday I had a visit from some sales people of Rational Technologies
> > who are offering a version control/management under NT (named ClearCase)
> > which is kind of GUI based (explorer centric) and which establishes a 
> > multi version FS under NT (they say 'developed by the people who
> > designed the VMS file system' - well, I cannot judge if this can be
> > considered a big plus :-). Anyway, is there such a thing as a
> > MVFS (multi version FS) under FreeBSD and would it be worth 
> > taking a look at it ?
> 
> I worked as a student with Atria ClearCase, and it sounds very much the 
> same.

(Pure) Atria has been bought by Rational Technologies sometime in 1997.
So no surprise :-)

> OS environment was Solaris (on sparc). The ClearCase Software offered
> the *whole* "repository" (CVS word) as a special device to be mounted
> via NFS. In this FS, any file can be accessed with a 
> 
> <filename>@@/main[/<branch1>[/<branch2> ... ]]/<version number>
> 

[other considerations omitted]

> 
> Greetings,
> Reinhold Huber

-- 
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de

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