topic Re: Set volume or qtree to read-only in 7-mode or cDOT in Network and Storage Protocols

Set volume or qtree to read-only in 7-mode or cDOT

loudymanschwab — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:37:46 GMT

Does anyone know of a way to make a volume read-only in cDOT or 7-mode to both NFS and CIFS clients without modifying the export policy/rules or the share permissions? Also, not looking to set as a snap-mirror destination.

Essentially, would like to flip a filesystem to read-only no matter what clients may be mounted/mapped. This is in order to verify that the data is absolutely not changing at all before starting a very specific maintenance.

Re: Set volume or qtree to read-only in 7-mode or cDOT

billshaffer — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 22:49:51 GMT

I'm not aware of a way (can't speak for Cluster-Mode). Do you need to keep read access available? I know you said "without modifying the share/exports", but you CAN make that modification pretty painless if you need to...

Bill

Re: Set volume or qtree to read-only in 7-mode or cDOT

loudymanschwab — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 23:14:36 GMT

Bill - I do understand that it's relatively low-pain to modify a CIFS share and NFS export via command line to set all access to read-only. My issue with this is restoring the filesystem to normal read-write operations. In 7-mode, using exportfs -p does comment out the old rules, so it's fairly easy to look in the exports file for the previous config and re-export it (or just VI the exports file). In cDOT, it's probably easiest to just the volume to use a pre-configured read-only export policy, then flip back to the original once done (so not a huge deal here). For CIFS shares, its a bit trickier to see previous share permissions if they didn't happen to be the default. My best thought here would be to log the permission set first, then re-configure when setting back to read-write. Just don't want to write new scripts for all of this.

I'm working to create a procedure for an operations team with very low knowledge of NetApp specific commands and would like to avoid making another custom script. Was just hoping that there was a way to flip a volume to read-only (while keeping data access intact) similar to how snapmirror does to keep this whole thing simple.

Re: Set volume or qtree to read-only in 7-mode or cDOT

billshaffer — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:35:17 GMT

Got it. Just thought I'd throw it out there, since I don't know any other way to make it read only...

If you find something, post it here!

Bill