What does the * mean when listing views in clearcase?

Question

On executing command

ct lsview | grep -i <some_string>

The result is a list of views.
Few of them are something like

* <view_name1>

What does this star (*) mean?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

It means they are dynamic views (MVFS Multi Version filesystem) which are started.

When you start a view, it becomes visible in /view (unix) or M:\ (Windows), the MVFS mounting point.
See "What is the nature of a “MVFS filesystem” with ClearCase?"

This would not apply to snapshot views, as they are always available directly in your local disk: see "What are the differences between a snapshot view and a dynamic view?"

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