No. Even read only. You would be safe from data corruption of the filesystem on disk but the read only partner would be at risk - it might not see writes or might see only some of them leading ultimately to unknown behavior on that system.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 9, 2014, at 6:44 AM, "Gabriele Bulfon via illumos-discuss" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > as an experiment. > > Let's say I have a zfs fs shared as an NFS resource to another illumos client. > Let's say I have created a 152GB file on this resrouce. > Let's say I have added the file as a lofi dev on the NFS server, and created > a 512GB zpool on it. > Finally, let's say I have added the file as a lofi dev on the NFS client too. > > Now I can export / import the pool both from the NFS server, and the NFS > client. > > Obviously I can't import the pool from both machines. > > But...what if one would "import -f -o readonly=on" and the other would import > -f read/write? > Would it be possible? > This would let me zfs send the client pool to the lofi pool on the NFS share, > while have the server > be able to read the contained files. > > Is it safe? > > Gabriele. > > > > > illumos-developer | Archives | Modify Your Subscription > > > illumos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
