Re: linux-2.5.4-pre1 - bitkeeper testing

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, 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).

So what's that ClearCase file system driver doing in kernel space? If your
claims are true, we wouldn't be limited to running some specific (buggy) Red
Hat kernel when we would want to migrate development from Solaris to Linux.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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