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From: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
Subject: Re: RAID over Firewire
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:27:53 +1200
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Gordon Henderson wrote:

> While I haven't done this, I have a client who uses Firewire drives
> (Lacie) as a backup solution and they seem to "just work", and look like
> locally attached SCSI drives (Performance is quite good too!) I guess you
> won't be hot pluging/unplugging them, so those issues won't bite you, but
> I can't see a reason why a pair of them wouldn't be OK.

Thanks.

While I can see that hotunplugging without unmounting would be an issue,
what is the problem with hot plugging or unplugging otherwise?

Regards,

Richard