Re: Tough question for oracle DBAs/Solaris Admins. Log shipping.

From: Rich Teer <rich.teer_at_rite-group.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:01:13 GMT
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.64.0609041458540.28576@marrakesh>

On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, jKILLSPAM.schipper_at_math.uu.nl wrote:

> I assume that some kind of warning must be given before one can remove
> devices; still, this is 'wicked cool'.

Not necesarrily. Some devices are more "plug tolerant" than others.

> There is, BTW, no particular requirement for dynamic loading; OpenBSD
> just compiles every driver [1] into the kernel, so dynamic
> reconfiguration can be done without loading any additional drivers.

That's one valid way of doing it, but wasteful of memory resources if drivers for devices one rarely (if ever) uses are compiled in.

> Of course, you *can* plug in a USB device, and it will mostly Just Work
> - but hotswapping CPUs is not possible.

Provided it's supported by the HW, Solaris DOES support hotswapping CPUs...

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Received on Mon Sep 04 2006 - 17:01:13 CDT