Dear Tejas, On Wednesday 14 April 2010, Tejas N. Bhise wrote: > ok .. so if I understand correctly, you want to *replace* an existing > export by a new export on a new machine, while keeping all data online and > keep the source export of the replace in read mode so it can be copied off. Exactly. > Are there other processes also doing a read off the read only > export/sub-volume, besides the rsync ? Yes, there is some activity ... The goal is to keep the whole process as transparent to the users which read/write to the flat space as possible. Since our users mostly have a write-once read-many usage pattern, it should be possible to keep them happy. Regards, Fred -- Fred-Markus Stober stober at cern.ch Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
