From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 23 11:59:48 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2126106566C; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:59:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk) Received: from mail.tdx.com (mail.tdx.com [62.13.128.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64FA38FC1F; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:59:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Octa64 (octa64.tdx.co.uk [62.13.130.232]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.tdx.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Kp) with ESMTP id o9NBxl7v097542; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:59:47 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:00:53 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek Message-ID: <9C1A2093A817726315BAA098@Octa64> In-Reply-To: <20101023100303.GE1742@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <20101023100303.GE1742@garage.freebsd.pl> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS 'read-only' device / pool scan / import? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:59:49 -0000 --On 23 October 2010 12:03 +0200 Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > As for read-only imports. This is not possible in the ZFS version we > have now, but such functionality is available in most recent ZFS, which > is not yet in FreeBSD. Thanks, that just answered my original question perfectly :) At least we know the mess we got into is recoverable, and numerous lessons have been learnt - and that read only imports (which won't change anything on the pool) should, hopefully be with us at some point :) Regards, -Karl