Hi Calvin,
1. The 1-wire bus certainly is hot-plugable. In fact whole industries are
made using intermittent contact of ibuttons for security locks, watchman
rounds, etc. There is a delay in registering the new device under OWFS
unless you look at the uncached directory (just for performance, so
My hard disk crashed solid. Ouch. So I set up Ubuntu 8.04 (64-bit)
Here's the steps for OWFS.
Basic ubuntu install and added lots of fluff.
Then for OWFS ---
sudo apt-get install cvs
sudo apt-get install autoconf
sudo apt-get install automake
sudo apt-get install libtool
# For filesystem