Hi -
Here is an update on Solaris behavior from a SUN architect;
I hadn't realized it would notice the export change and
return errors. I'd assume that Linux is behaving like I
said, but it appears that it should notice.
Tom
Peter Staubach wrote:
>
>
> Re-exporting a file system to remove write permission will immediately
> disable all clients from writing through that export. The client will
> not know that the files are now read-only, but they will be. The file
> system does not need to be remounted or anything else like that. The
> EROFS errors will just start being returned from the server to the
> client.
>
> When this person indicates that the client could still write data,
> I would presume that the write(2) system call appears to succeed,
> ie. doesn't return an error, but encounters the EROFS error later
> when it actually tries to write the data to the server.
>
> ps
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