SOHO Backups?

[Tom Buskey]

On 11/18/05, aluminumsulfate at earthlink.net <aluminumsulfate at earthlink.net>
wrote:
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> For the record, I would *not* advise hot-swapping IDE drives on a 2.4
> kernel. I tried this (using the bays from aforementioned shop in
> Manchester, specifically marked hot-swappable on the box) and hosed a
> filesystem. From what I have read, hot swap IDE is not supported b/c
> the kernel only flushes IDE buffers on shutdown. Maybe 2.6 is
> different--I haven't looked into it.



As always, make sure the whole system supports hot swap. SATA hardware
supports hot swap. The Linux kernel does not. I used a RAID card that
supported hot swap. The OS just sees a big disk and the card worrys abot
swapping, etc.




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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad
measures.
- Daniel Webster
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