[zfs-discuss] Read-only vdev

2011-04-08 Thread Karl Wagner
Hi everyone. I was just wondering if there was a way to for a specific vdev in a pool to be read-only? I can think of several uses for this, but would need to know if it was possible before thinking them through properly. Cheers Mouse ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Read-only vdev

2011-04-08 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 08 April, 2011 - Karl Wagner sent me these 3,5K bytes: Hi everyone. I was just wondering if there was a way to for a specific vdev in a pool to be read-only? I can think of several uses for this, but would need to know if it was possible before thinking them through

Re: [zfs-discuss] Read-only vdev

2011-04-08 Thread Karl Wagner
-Original Message- From: Tomas Ögren [mailto:st...@acc.umu.se] Sent: 08 April 2011 11:23 To: Karl Wagner Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Read-only vdev On 08 April, 2011 - Karl Wagner sent me these 3,5K bytes: Hi everyone. I was just

Re: [zfs-discuss] Read-only vdev

2011-04-08 Thread Victor Latushkin
On Apr 8, 2011, at 2:38 PM, Karl Wagner wrote: One of them was simply an alternative way to do a live CD environment. As ZFS already does COW etc, it would avoid all the hassle you get in e.g. linux. You could have a ZFS vdev on the CD, then use a RAM disk as a second vdev. IIRC this idea