Re: Flames over -- Re: Which is simpler?

[Olivier Galibert]

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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