On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Richard Scobie wrote: > Gordon Henderson wrote: > > > While I haven't done this, I have a client who uses Firewire drives > > (Lacie) as a backup solution and they seem to "just work", and look like > > locally attached SCSI drives (Performance is quite good too!) I guess you > > won't be hot pluging/unplugging them, so those issues won't bite you, but > > I can't see a reason why a pair of them wouldn't be OK. > > Thanks. > > While I can see that hotunplugging without unmounting would be an issue, > what is the problem with hot plugging or unplugging otherwise? Mostly dumb user issues - unplugging before unmounting, but I have seen issues in older kernels where the echo "scsi remove-single-device 0 0 0 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi rune has crashed the server. Gordon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
