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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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