Dag-Erling Sm繪rgrav wrote:
> "Stephen Hocking" <stephen.hocking@gmail.com> writes:
>> Have been looking at FreeNAS (http://www.freenas.org/) and thinking
>> about the iSCSI portion of it. At the moment the box requires you to
>> shutdown when a disk fails in order to replace it. Is this a feature
>> of the GEOM RAID stuff? Is it possible (assuming suitable hardware) to
>> have hot-pluggable disks under the control of GEOM?
>
> It is a function of the disk controller and driver. AFAIK, the ata
> driver supports hot-plug as long as the SATA controller does. I believe
> most Promise and Intel ICH SATA controllers do, not sure about Sil or
> nVidia MCP.
>
> DES
If you where using SATA disks on a SAS controller then I think you would
also need a back plane with an environmental services controller on it
to support hot plug.
Tom
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