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Re: disk hot-swap utilities



on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:11:26PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans (frodo@morgul.net) wrote:
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> I recently had the opportunity to use a FreeBSD feature that I found
> extremely cool.  I had built a machine, set it up as a server, deployed
> the server, then realized I needed to add a disk.  The machine and OS
> support hot-swapping SCSI disks, so I was able to add a whole new disk,
> previously 100% unknown to the system, without ever rebooting.  The tool
> to control the SCSI bus is called camcontrol on FreeBSD.  My question
> is, how is this done in Linux and Debian?  Is the functionality as
> mature and good?

Not my area of expertise, but I believe this is specific to RAID
features.  I'd look to Linux-kernel specific documenation on this.

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