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Subject: Re: zfs loader: allow access to any filesystem in a pool
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on 31/07/2010 20:30 Ollivier Robert said the following:
> Don't forget snapshots are read-only, you want to clone it before.

Why?  Is read-only root fs mount (booting from read-only media even) unheard of?

> Le 25 juil. 2010 à 19:49, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> a écrit :
>> Potentially there is nothing preventing a snapshot to be used as a boot dataset.
>> But I have not implemented this.

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Andriy Gapon