Re: Linux supports hot-swappable hardware? [was Re:

At 14:41 18.06.2003, Shridhar Daithankar said:
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>Linux supports hot-swappable hardware? As in swappng CPU/RAM/Add on cards on
>the fly?
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>That is news to me. Could you point me to more resources on this?
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AFAIK swappable hardware needs to be supported by the hardware as well.
Currently hard disks and power supplies can be hot-swapped, I never heard
of the possibility to hot-swap directly on the data bus (memory, CPU, slot
cards).

As for SCSI disks and Power supplies, Linux supports hot swap. Check out
Dell servers for example.


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