David Hopwood writes: > Note also that mounting a filesystem read-only does not guarantee that > the disk will not be written, because of atime updates (this is arguably > a Unix design flaw, but still has to be taken into account). So r may I can mount with the -noatime option.
> I don't understand why you would ever want to risk this with valuable > data. Please don't create the impression that I suggested that, because other readers may believe you. I didn't suggest risking valuable data. I know about NFS, QFS, VCFS, and other reliable solutions. I asked my question out of technical curiosity, and I hereby apologize for the obvious waste of bandwith. In the future, I'll go look at the sources instead. Rainer _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
