Jim Cheetham wrote:
On the other hand, I've yet to see any USB2 hotswap under Linux work
reliably - sooner or later the machine hangs, or the disks don't mount,
sometimes they don't release their previous hold over sda, and get
mounted as sdb, etc, etc.
I can backup (!) this assertion. I've had nothing but trouble trying to
get a USB2 backup solution working nicely. It's a great idea, but i
ended up crashing a file server many times, and creating some
interesting filename munging scripts to make the interesting filenames
people call things fit onto a FAT32 fs, which then proceeded to lunch
itself anyway when i grew above a certain size.
I ended up grabbing an old machine, naming it 'backuphost', inserting a
USB2 card, installing Ubuntu on it, nfs mounting the server and
reformatting the USB drive with reiserfs. The problem with mounting as
sda, next as sdb, etc seems to have gone away.
Works OK now, cross fingers.
Cheers, Rex
