About snapshot view characteristics and operating system type

For snapshot views, the operating system type from which you create the view determines view characteristics; the operating system type that hosts the files and processes related to a snapshot view do not affect the behavior of the view.

For example, it is possible to create a snapshot view from a Windows® host and locate the view directory tree and the view storage directory on a Rational® ClearCase® host on the UNIX® system (assuming that you use vendor software to access UNIX file systems from Windows computers). Although all files related to the view are on the UNIX workstation, because you created the view from a Windows host, the view behaves as if its files are located on a Windows computer:

• Case-sensitive file lookups are not performed in the view.
• The view does not create symbolic links if the load rules encounter a VOB symbolic link.
• You can issue Rational ClearCase commands for the view only from Windows hosts. (Rational ClearCase hosts on the UNIX operating system do not recognize the directory tree as a snapshot view.)

• About locating snapshot view root directories
  
• About snapshot view storage directories
  
• About registering snapshot views
  
• Before accessing snapshot views across different platforms
  
• Before moving snapshot views
  
• Before updating a snapshot view
  
• About changing which elements are loaded in a snapshot view
  
• Before accessing files from snapshot views
  
• About accessing elements not loaded into a snapshot view
  
• Introduction to working in a snapshot view without a network connection