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Re: Install and RAID



* Paul Slootman 

| On Fri 26 Jan 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
| > 
| > The real argument for hardware RAID is uptime: hotswap with software
| > RAID is not common at all, and it's standard for hardware RAID. For
| 
| Depends on your definition of hotswap.  With Disksuite (solaris)
| hotswapping is easy, although you *do* have to tell the system
| to detach and reattach the disk manually.

like you can with Linux' scsi devices as well.  some echo commands
into the proper place in /proc does that for you.  (No, I don't
remember right now, and I'm too lazy to look it up and I don't think
this discussion belongs on debian-devel).

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