Ronald, thanks for your comments.
I was thinking about this scenario: Host w continuously has a UFS mounted with read/write access. Host w writes to the file f/ff/fff. Host w ceases to touch anything under f. Three hours later, host r mounts the file system read-only, reads f/ff/fff, and unmounts the file system. My assumption was: a1) This scenario won't hurt w, a2) this scenario won't damage the data on the file system, a3) this scenario won't hurt r, and a4) the read operation will succeed, even if w continues with arbitrary I/O, except that it doesn't touch anything under f until after r has unmounted the file system. Of course everything that you and Tim and Casper said is true, but I'm still inclined to try that scenario. Rainer _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
