On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 07:06:20PM -0800, Mike Papper wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback, it seems caching is the main concern and if I 
> always only write any given file once (then perhaps do a flush and a 
> close after the write to empty the cache) and from then only ever read 
> the file, will the scheme I had in mind work?
> 
> Also, will ZFS really prevent my mounting the same FS by several 
> different machines? Is there a way around this?

No, ZFS will not prevent you from doing this, but you will corrupt your
pool (there is a bug filed to track the hostid in the label to prevent
this).  There is also no way to open a pool in read-only mode, and ZFS
will die when it cannot write to the device (both with appropriate bugs
filed).

- Eric

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Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development       http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock
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