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On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
> My understanding of Clearcase is that it actually loads a virtual
> filesystem driver in Windows and does all kinds of insane magic -

Just FYI, this is only the case if you're using so-called dynamic
views, which require the MVFS
driver, as you say. The OP said he was using snapshot views -- these
don't use MVFS and instead just checkout to the OS's native
filesystem.

j.