Re: Comparison between CVS and ClearCase

[Donald Sharp]

Ah.  Yeah that's right.  Sorry for the misinformation ;)

donald
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 12:44:00PM -0800, Paul Sander wrote:
> The ClearCase lock manager has been modified to allow a single writer
> concurrently with multiple readers.  This performance enhancement is
> available only on Solaris in v4.1 but will be subsequently released on
> the other platforms.
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> >Comment inline...
> 
> >On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:35:32AM -0800, Paul Sander wrote:
> >> - ClearCase has one potentially serious scalability problem:  Only one
> >>   writer per database is permitted at a time.  This limits the practical
> >>   size of each repository and encourages layered build processes.
> 
> >My understanding is that this has been fixed as of CC4.1.  Your now
> >able to have multiple writes at the same time...
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