Hotplug?

Marc Wiz marc at wiz.com
Thu Dec 18 13:26:18 PST 2003


On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 01:32:47PM +0100, mathias at haas.se wrote:
> Hello!
> Perhaps this is more of a filesystem question but I thought that maybe
> firewire-users have heard this question before.
> 
> I intend to buy an external firewire harddisk as a cheap backup for my
> customers FreeBSD-server. Does FreeBSD support hotplugging of fire-wire
> harddisks? (That is: Can I remove it while the filesystem is in use
> without unmounting it?) - Or should I go with some different kind of
> solution?

Mathias,

why would you remove the drive before umounting it?

Marc

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