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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make virtio devices multi-function
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:35:03 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <480ED897.5010405@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <480E383A.3040305@us.ibm.com>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> BTW, I've never been that convinced that hotplugging devices is as 
> useful as people make it out to be.  I also think that's particularly 
> true when it comes to hot adding/removing very large numbers of disks.
>
>   

On the contrary, the more disks you have, the more likely one is to 
fail, so you'd need to hotreplace it (think a setup with redundancy like 
zfs).

-- 
Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature.


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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-23  6:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-22 14:15 [PATCH] Make virtio devices multi-function Anthony Liguori
2008-04-22 14:32 ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-22 14:46   ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-22 14:51     ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-22 15:36       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-04-22 16:18         ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-22 16:27           ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-22 16:31             ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-22 17:26               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-04-22 18:52                 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-23  6:42                   ` Chris Wright
2008-04-22 19:26                 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-04-22 19:00             ` Ian Kirk
2008-04-23  6:32               ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-23 20:57         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-04-22 15:17   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-04-22 19:10     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-23  6:35       ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-04-22 15:12 ` Luca Tettamanti
2008-04-22 15:13 ` Ryan Harper
2008-04-22 15:16   ` Anthony Liguori

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