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SubjectRe: Flames over -- Re: Which is simpler?
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 11:23:53AM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> SCSI != USB. Users generally don't expect to hotplug SCSI devices
> while booted and running (with the exception of some _really_
> expensive hotplug-bays where we expect the admin to know what the
> hell they're doing). On the other hand, users _do_ expect to hotplug
> random USB devices whenever they feel like it.

I do expect to be able to move non-mounted disks around while
suspended to disk, whatever their kind is (ide, sata, scsi, whatever).
That's one of the main reasons you want a reliable suspend-to-disk on
servers, another one being riding predicted powerloss (moving boxes
around can be called a powerloss).

OG.
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