Tejun Heo wrote: > Richard Scobie wrote: > > >Can I unmount the connected and mounted array and just unplug the array > >with no further concern? > > The machine will survive and detach the device correctly but > yet-unwritten data will be lost. He said he'll unmount it first, so presumably that should avoid most data loss? I suppose if you're in the middle of a RAID resync, or just ran fdisk or fsck or similar, you could still have unflushed data. Does that mean that hot-unplug is not recommended, and one should always do warm-unplug instead? -jim - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html