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2006-10-05 Thread Jeremy Teo
Hello, On 10/5/06, Dale Ghent wrote: > 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 > >> add

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2006-10-05 Thread Jeremy Teo
Hello, On 10/5/06, Matthew Ahrens wrote: > Jeremy Teo wrote: > > Hello, > > > > request sponsor for #4890717 want append-only files. > > > > I have a working prototype where the administrator can put a zfs fs > > into "append only" mode by setting the zfs "appendonly" property to > > "on" using z

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2006-10-05 Thread casper....@sun.com
>"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

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2006-10-05 Thread Dale Ghent
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 t

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2006-10-05 Thread casper....@sun.com
>We're having some discussions about various ways of implementing "append >only". There are some requirements around Sarbanes-Oxley about >append-only *files*, and the possibility of using ACLs to specify >append-only permissions. However, there may also be some use cases for >append-only *f

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2006-10-05 Thread Jeremy Teo
Hello Casper, > I think that this will not be as simple as request sponsor but > that this needs an ARC case first. Sure. > This is on a *filesystem* basis? Yes, per zfs "filesystem" basis. -- Regards, Jeremy

[request-sponsor] request sponsor for #4890717

2006-10-05 Thread Jeremy Teo
Hello, request sponsor for #4890717 want append-only files. I have a working prototype where the administrator can put a zfs fs into "append only" mode by setting the zfs "appendonly" property to "on" using zfs(1M). "append only" mode in this case means 1. Applications can only append to any ex

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2006-10-04 Thread casper....@sun.com
>Hello, > >request sponsor for #4890717 want append-only files. > >I have a working prototype where the administrator can put a zfs fs >into "append only" mode by setting the zfs "appendonly" property to >"on" using zfs(1M). > >"append only" mode in this case means > >1. Applications can only appe

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2006-10-04 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Jeremy Teo wrote: > Hello, > > request sponsor for #4890717 want append-only files. > > I have a working prototype where the administrator can put a zfs fs > into "append only" mode by setting the zfs "appendonly" property to > "on" using zfs(1M). > > "append only" mode in this case means > > 1

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2006-10-04 Thread Bonnie Corwin
Needing an ARC case doesn't preclude a request from getting a sponsor. We have had other sponsors initiate ARC cases for contributed work when appropriate. It just means it's a bigger task and takes longer. It sounds like whoever sponsors this should know that it will probably involve an ARC case