Casper.Dik at sun.com wrote: >> "Every day we are archiving documents. At the end of the day we want >> to freeze the filesystem. Would it be possible to add a time-lock >> property to ZFS? Could this be extended to still allow new files to be >> added to the locked file system , but not allowing to add/modify files >> (ZFS ACL's could handle this)?" > > Don't snapshots handle most of this functionality?
I guess he could snapshot at the end of the day and then roll it back in the morning and have in effect a freezing of the data. But do it from cron. Or zfs set readonly=on <volume> from cron. There's your time lock. I think that a time lock feature for setting things RO or RW would be out of place in ZFS. Cool, yes, but not needed in ZFS itself. The effect of a timed lock can be achieved with cron and two ZFS commands. /dale
