My installations have different values for the global and host pathnames. I
have found that it actually works better to have the view-storage-pname
match the global-storage-name.
If sysadmin in their infinite wisdom decide to move somebody's home
directory to a different drive, the global path doesn't change ( all home
directories are mounted as /home/whatever on all machines per local policy)
and I can use cleartool register -replace and cleartool mktag -replace to
fix things. If the view-storage-pname matches the old local path, cleartool
tends to get cranky.
There have been a few cases of views that were usable for a couple of months
after the host-pname changed without the registry being updated.
-----Original Message-----
From: kleach2@csc.com [mailto:kleach2@csc.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 6:17 AM
To: alex.batlin@nomura.co.uk; cciug@Rational.Com
Subject: Re: [cciug] view-storage-pname
The view-storage-pname and the host-storage-pname should always be the same
path. However, the global-storage-pname may differ depending on your
installation. The hpath is telling the registry that this is the path in
which
the view-storage directory, for any given View, can be found on the host,
which
houses the local disk, on which the storage area resides. The gpath refers
to
the location at which the view-storage area is accessed on all other
workstations within the network.
If you create a view-storage directory called test.vws under
/export/viewstore
on host mustang and then mount /export/viewstore to /export/viewstore on all
other workstations, the path for the view-storage-pname, hpath and gpath
will be
the same.
However, if you mount /export/viewstore from host mustang to
/net/export/viewstore the view-storage-pname and the hpath will be the same
but
the gpath will be /net/export/viewstore/test.vws as this is the structure
that
exists on all other workstations. It's all dependent on how you access
directory
structures on the workstations Vs the servers.
Hope this helps.
alex.batlin@nomura.co.uk on 01/05/2000 06:02:32 AM
To: cciug@rational.com
cc: (bcc: Kenneth R Leach/CIV/CSC)
Subject: [cciug] view-storage-pname
I am ashamed to be asking this question, however, it's something that is
bothering me. When registering or tagging a view or a VOB, when one
specifies the tripple path, one also specifies the view-storage-pname, which
is usually the same as the host-stg-pname.
Why is this the case and can the view-storage-pname ever be different to
either host-stg-pname or global-stg-pname.
> mktag -view -tag view-tag [-tcomment tag-comment] [-replace]
> [-nstart] [-ncaexported] [-region network-region]
> [-host hostname -hpath host-stg-pname -gpath global-stg-pname]
> view-storage-pname
Regards,
Alex.
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