Andre van Eyssen <an...@purplecow.org> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Rince wrote: > > > FWIW, I strongly expect live ripping of a SATA device to not panic the disk > > layer. It explicitly shouldn't panic the ZFS layer, as ZFS is supposed to be > > "fault-tolerant" and "drive dropping away at any time" is a rather expected > > scenario. > > Ripping a SATA device out runs a goodly chance of confusing the > controller. If you'd had this problem with fibre channel or even SCSI, I'd > find it a far bigger concern. IME, IDE and SATA just don't hold up to the > abuses we'd like to level at them. Of course, this boils down to > controller and enclosure and a lot of other random chances for disaster.
PATA (ide) does not support hpt-plug, SATA does and SATA uses the same interface as SAS does. I would expect that there is no difference between unplugging a SATA drive and unplugging a SAS drive. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss