[OpenAFS-devel] Adding a "-readonly" option to file server?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 Phil.Moore@morganstanley.com wrote:

> >>>>> "Derrick" == Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> writes:
> 
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 Phil.Moore@morganstanley.com wrote:
> >> Since we use our own homegrown architecture for distributing changes
> >> to these volumes, and the updates are exclusively performed via vos
> >> restore, the option you are proposing would help us close a small hole
> >> that has bothered me for year -- namely, rogue users (the ones that
> >> think they understand the AFS volume structure well enough to do this)
> >> will sometimes hack a RW volume and then perform a manual vos release,
> >> bypassing the supported up[date mechanism.
> 
> Derrick> What he's proposing shouldn't help you, IIRC. That's a volserver change
> Derrick> you want, and he's proposing fileserver changes. A change in the fssync
> Derrick> interface might be able to be made to do what you want...
> 
> Why do I need a volserver change for this?  I just want to make it
> impossible to write to the RW volume via the cache manager.  Its the
> rogue "fs mkmount", followed by manual hacking that I want to ban.

Oh, as opposed to the manual release. Fine.

-D