[LUAU] SATA hot swap - off topic

[Jeff Mings]

Thanks for the suggestion.  What I'd really like to be able to do is 
just switch out backup hard drives once a month.  The goal is simple 
data redundancy, not hardware fail-over.  I'm planning on colocating a 
server, and I was hoping I could just umount /dev/whichever ,  unlock a 
drive tray, and reverse the process for a different drive.  It just 
sounds too easy, though.

-Jeff


MonMotha wrote:

>
> Before you go trying this, make sure the SATA drivers in Linux support 
> hot swapping.  Just because the hardware supports it doesn't mean the 
> software does (I can practically guarantee you windows will BSOD 
> unless you tell it in advance you're going to hotswap it's drive).
>
> This is mostly useful on RAID arrays though.  See the raidhotadd and 
> raidhotremove (or is it raidhotdel?) commands.
>
> --MonMotha
>