From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make virtio devices multi-function Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:35:03 +0300 Message-ID: <480ED897.5010405@qumranet.com> References: <1208873728-10194-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <480DF70D.8010609@qumranet.com> <20080422151750.GA15375@dmt> <480E383A.3040305@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Chris Wright , Marcelo Tosatti To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: In-Reply-To: <480E383A.3040305@us.ibm.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone