Re: Comparison between CVS and ClearCase

[Paul Sander]

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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>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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