[lokedhs]

I've never used Clearcase, but I worked for Sun around 2000 and one of the things I did was analysing kernel dumps of Solaris.

If we saw the Clearcase kernel module you can be sure that that was going to be the root cause of the crash. That thing seemed to really terrible, and it wouldn't surprise me if the rest of the product was as bad.

I don't know if things have changed now, but to use Clearcase you needed a kernel module that provided a special filesystem that you did your work against.

[andrewflnr]

> to use Clearcase you needed a kernel module that provided a special filesystem that you did your work against.

That... Augh, that's actually kind of a good idea, even if it was before its time. But FFS...

[lokedhs]

The idea is not terrible, but when the kernel module is so unstable it brings down the build machines with a kernel panic, I'd say the execution was somewhat lacking.

[trentnelson]

Similar concept to GVFS: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2017/02/03/announcin...