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

"Tim Bradshaw" <tfb+google_at_tfeb.org> writes:

>Rich Teer wrote:

>> 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.

>I can imagine circumstances where the driver wasn't even on the system
>at compile time (whenever that was). I'm not sure I've done this, but
>I can easily imagine something like (on Solaris):

It is possible for a Solaris system to load a driver which was not written when the system was booted; and a device which potentially didn't exist when the system booted.

Casper

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