Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

[Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>]

On Saturday 03 April 2010 09:55:39 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Friday 02 April 2010 23:28:26 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 21:50:09 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > > > Assuming your controller supports hotplugging, assuming you
> > > > have a drive available to plug in, assuming you are able to
> > > > physically add a drive.
> > > 
> > > sata can hotplug. all ahci controlers can hotplug and all sata
> > > drives can hotplug. If you insist on technology straight from
> > > the stone ages that is your problem.
> > 
> > I'd like to see you hotplug another SATA drive into this netbook,
> > whereas I can add another volume in seconds.
> 
> I'd like to see him add another SATA drive to my nameservers sitting
> in New York or the vmhost in Nairobi. I'm in Johannesburg.
> 
> Taking down that NewYork nameserver on a whim to add disks is not an
> option. It's an old machine, but a critical one and serves DNS to
> our entire European and US markets. Taking it down on a whim gets me
> fired.

Reminds me of that old chestnut, "all generalisations are false".

-- 
Rgds
Peter.