Hello team, I noticed that LakeFs allows creating read-only repositories. I'm just curious to understand whether we can add data into the repository when creating a readonly repository. Further, can we update an existing writable repository into a readonly repository?

When a repository is in read only mode it is as the name states not writeable. This means you cannot add any data into the repository. It is currently not possible to update an existing repository to read only mode. I'm very curious though, would you mind sharing what kind of use case do you have for read-only repositories?

In addition, a read-only repository is useful when a separate process updates all metadata and you don't need or want lakeFS to mutate it. A current use case for this is transactional mirroring. I cannot think of any easy users for this feature, though.

Thank you Niro and Ariel. I don't really have a use-case for this. I'm currently doing a poc and I just wanted to understand how this feature works and whether this feature is useful for our application