On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 5:19 AM, John Sonnenschein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James isn't being a jerk because he hates your or anything... > > Look, yanking the drives like that can seriously damage the drives or your > motherboard.
It can, but it's not very likely to. > Solaris doesn't let you do it and assumes that something's gone seriously > wrong if you try it. That Linux ignores the behavior and lets you do it > sounds more like a bug in linux than anything else. That if something sounds more like defensiveness. Pulling out the cable isn't advisable, but it simulates the controller card on the disk going belly up pretty well. Unless he pulls the power at the same time, because that would also simulate a power failure. If a piece of hardware stops responding you might do well to stop talking to it, but there is nothing admirable about locking up the OS if there is enough redundancy to continue without that particular chunk of metal. -- Peter Bortas _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
