Tim, thanks for answering... > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > <html> > <head> > <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> > <title></title> > </head> > <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> ...but please don't send HTML, if possible.
> <br> > Try this explanation..<br> > <br> > Host A mounts UFS file system rw<br> > Hosts B-C mount sam UFS file system read only<br> > <br> > In natural scheme of things hosts B-C read files and <b><u><i>cache > metadata about the files and file system</i>.<br> > </u></b><br> > Host A changes the file system. The metadata that hosts B-C have cached > is now incorrect. If they go to access the file system and find that > its state has changed things can start to go wrong.<br> Sure, that's why I said it wouldn't be recommended. But for someone who knows what he's doing, e.g. who reads from a transfer directory only after all writing to it is known to be completed, it should be technically possible, right? Thanks again, Rainer Brandt _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
