Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 10 Feb 2010, at 17:26, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>> ...
>>> The mainboard I use (ASUS M3N-WS) has a working hotswap support
>>> (Yes, I tested
>>> this) using hotswap drive bays.
>>> Take a disk out, Linux actually sees it being removed prior to
>>> writing to it
>>> and when I stick it back in, it gets a new device assigned.
>>
>> This is very interesting to know.
>>
>> This would be very useful here, even if just for auxiliary use -
>> swapping in a drive from another machine just to clone it, backup or
>> recover data, for instance.
>
> Yes, but just for cloning, wouldn't it be just as easy to power down  
> the
> machine, plug in the drive and then power it back up?
> Or even stick it on a quick-change USB-case? :)

I'd really rather not power the machine down. Likely it's in the  
middle of a 24-hour DVD rip, or something.

A quick-change USB-case (or similar) is the current method, but I have  
4 spare hot-swap bays on the front of this box, so slapping the drive  
in one of those reduces the clutter in the server cabinet. And that  
does have a tendency to get VERY cluttered, so if I can reduce that it  
also reduces the potential for human errors (pulling the wrong USB  
cable by mistake &c).

Stroller.