Re: [PATCH] Make virtio devices multi-function

Avi Kivity
2008-04-23T06:35:03Z

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).

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